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...seven-power Bushnells, he could read room numbers on the motel doors 70 yards distant, and the same strength on his Redfield scope would make human figures seem only 30 ft. away. The scope was mounted on a .30-06 Remington Gamemaster, which was engineered so that its 150-grain slug would lose less than .01 inch in altitude and reach the motel balcony with 2,370 pounds of knockdown power--enough to drop a rhinoceros. However, the odd angle of an occluding building next door meant the convict could fire the long rifle only by leaning out his window...
AgION worked around those difficulties by encasing silver ions in a type of powdery ceramic called zeolite. Each grain of zeolite is riddled with submicroscopic tunnels that are stuffed with silver ions. It releases the ions only in exchange for others--say, sodium ions in a salty drop of sweat. So ion-rich liquids, in which bugs often thrive, activate AgION's microbicide. "The ceramic delivers enough silver to be effective," says AgION CTO Jeffrey Trogolo, "but not so much that it loses effect over its lifetime...
...puerile insult.”UCS Communications Chair, Tristan M.D. Freeman said, “We understand the nature of O’Reilly’s show and that it’s not going to be the most factually correct, so we can take it with a grain of salt.”He said that students at Brown were “most disappointed by the many factual inaccuracies in O’Reilly’s show, and the fact that this was broadcast on national TV.” He added the general reaction...
...Orwellian as it sounds, VeriChip is betting this will be a billion-dollar business. The firm's parent company, Applied Digital Solutions, won FDA approval last year for what it bills as the "world's first human implantable microchip." A radio-frequency identification (RFID) transponder the size of a grain of rice, the VeriChip contains a 16-digit personal ID number that can be scanned like a bar code, providing health-care workers access to your medical records online. That could be lifesaving in an emergency, cutting the likelihood of medical errors for accident victims, Alzheimer's patients--anyone...
...with a mother’s pride that Betty Hafner says, “Pete skated beautifully at the end of his first day,” and so one can be forgiven for taking the comment with a grain of salt...