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...this summer, a large pilot program involving hundreds of human patients got under way at the Alzheimer's Community Care agency in West Palm Beach, Florida. The maker of the RFID chips used in the program, VeriChip Corporation, a subsidiary of the Delray Beach-based Applied Digital Solutions, is funding the initiative and wants to market its tags to the roughly 45 million high-risk patients in the U.S. with diseases such as Alzheimer's, diabetes, cancer and heart disease. The company says these patients can benefit from having instant and accurate access to medical records, which the chip would...
...fact, there has been one case of cancer - in a French bulldog named Leon - according to a 2006 study in Veterinary Pathology. But it remains unclear whether the cancer was caused by a microchip or as the result of an injection, or who the maker of the chip was. The dog's tumor was removed in 2004, and a later examination found no recurrence. It seems that no one notified the FDA about Leon, but his case doesn't appear to worry the agency, as evident from a statement it issued when the AP brought Leon's story to light...
...Thomas E. Everhart ’53, the former president of California Institute of Technology, wore a cap purchased half a century ago from a Cambridge hat-maker...
...about 1,000 - by 2026. There's also booming demand for smaller, so-called regional jets like the ARJ21, aircraft with fewer than 150 seats flown on short-haul domestic routes. At least 1,600 regional jets could be purchased between now and 2025, according to Canadian aircraft maker Bombardier. "There's never been more demand than right now," says Luo Ronghuai, president of AVIC I Commercial Aircraft Co. Ltd. (ACAC), which oversees the ARJ21 program...
...been dismissed as narcissistic and exhibitionist for placing herself in her own art. But, Schneemann explained, she wanted to explore if the artist could make herself an element of a collage. “My question at the time was: can I be both image and image-maker?” she said. Schneemann also spoke about the difficulty of being a woman in what she said was a male-dominated field. She recalled being belittled by a male colleague decades ago, describing his argument as, “You can do what you want to do, but you can?...