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...doing, is to be building a road system and building electricity to the village. Their rate, maybe, is not higher than our rate, I don't know, but at least represents an extension of the work that had been done in the past in this direction. These are the infra-structure type operations in the countryside...
...Sabbagh, a Texas University geographer who has just returned from Kenya, says that NASA satellites could take a daily "picture" of game preserves to allow scientists to monitor the movements of herds swiftly and accurately. Since different species produce different amounts of body heat, says Sabbagh, satellites equipped with infra-red cameras could distinguish between one kind of animal and another. With satellite-provided information, scientists would immediately be able to determine animals' responses to environmental changes, as well as their adaptation to their habitat...
...some nearby handball courts last June and played a vigorous game. But this time his purpose was strictly scientific. After returning to work, Rousseau wrung out his sweaty T shirt, collected the perspiration in a flask, evaporated it to a gummy residue, and then carefully analyzed it with an infra-red spectrometer. He found exactly what he was looking for: his sweat exhibited spectral characteristics similar to those of the mysterious and highly controversial substance called polywater...
...beach past the Nixon compound as an invasion route. Situated about 70 miles north of the Mexican border, the San Clemente beach had always provided an excellent detour around the Government checkpoints on the freeway northward. Now the beach is manned by dozens of Secret Service agents with infra-red lenses and every kind of detector imaginable. One night last week four illegal migrants were spotted on the beach by a snoop scope. But rather than turn on the floodlights and wake up the Nixons, the Secret Service men silently chased down the Mexicans...
...fact, the optics of a typical thermograph somewhat resemble early television. Using tilting and moving mirrors, the Barnes cameras scan the target horizontally and vertically. With each movement of the mirrors, the infra-red detectors take what are, in effect, quick temperature readings of a tiny portion of the subject. Before a picture is completed, as many as 40,000 "bits" of such information may be needed. The picture may be shown simply in black and white with shades of gray representing different temperature ranges. But color can be added with the use of appropriately positioned filters. Whenever there...