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Caring can move forward and backward, spin around, move his right arm, and turn his head. His special effects include sirens, a "laser sound," and the theme from the television police show Hill Street Blues...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Robot Joins Cambridge Police Force | 11/3/1987 | See Source »

...Shevardnadze arrived in Washington last month to work on the details of the INF pact. He brought with him a proposal refining Soviet demands that research and development of Star Wars weapons be restricted. Under the new Soviet plan, defensive technology in five categories -- kinetic kill vehicles, particle and laser beams, electromagnetic weapons, and space-based mirrors -- could be tested anywhere, including in space, as long as they were less powerful than certain agreed-upon levels, or "capacity thresholds." The testing of more powerful systems would be confined to laboratories on the ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Snuffing A Summit | 11/2/1987 | See Source »

...miles southwest of the islands, apparently misfired. The Pentagon claimed the firings were the closest Soviet missiles had come to American soil. Said Senator Malcolm Wallop, Republican of Wyoming: "The Soviets were practicing an attack on America." The Pentagon later acknowledged that a Soviet naval vessel aimed a laser beam at two American surveillance aircraft in the area, apparently to disrupt U.S. monitoring efforts. One pilot reportedly suffered temporary eye damage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nuclear Weapons: Too Close For Comfort | 10/12/1987 | See Source »

...China is now using modern chemical fertilizers in addition to time-honored natural ones. More and more acreage is being covered by transparent plastic sheeting that warms the soil, conserves water and guards against bad weather. Veterinarians use the ancient technique of acupuncture, but increasingly they work with laser beams instead of needles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Setting A Full Table | 10/12/1987 | See Source »

Phobos will glide between 98 and 260 ft. above the moon's surface -- "something similar to a cruise missile," quips Sagdeyev -- and drop an instrument-bearing minilander to record data on the moon's soil. One experiment involves a laser that will emit short bursts of energy, each vaporizing a square millimeter of surface into a cloud that can be analyzed by the probe's spectrometer. "You can pick up such exploded material from many different places," says Sagdeyev. "In the end you have a chemical map of the surface of Phobos -- if you are lucky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surging Ahead | 10/5/1987 | See Source »

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