Word: microchips
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...hedge fund, apparently discuss how to avoid attracting the attention of regulators. In another, the two contemplate whether the senior vice president at IBM would be more valuable to them at a different firm. In a third, Chiesi, upon sharing non-public details about an upcoming reorganization of the microchip maker AMD, tells an alleged co-conspirator: "You put me in jail if you talk ... I'm dead if this leaks. I really am ... and my career is over. I'll be like Martha f______ Stewart." Both Rajaratnam and Chiesi have proclaimed their innocence. (Watch TIME's video of Peter...
...Florida since 2000. It's a big reason the state laid down regulations last year that make it more difficult and expensive to own reptiles like these in the first place. The reptiles now require $100 annual permits and, if they're wider than 2 in. (5 cm), a microchip embedded in their skin to help owners and the state keep track of their whereabouts. Owners must also prove their handling skills. "We want to curb the cheap impulse-buying of these snakes," which can cost as little as $75 each, says Scott Hardin, exotic-species coordinator for the Florida...
...week. Ryan Wu, chief operating officer of job-search website 1111 Job Bank, says that conditions at Hsinchu have never been so dire in the park's 29-year history. Wu says that two years ago, the companies that job hunters most often sought out using his service were microchip makers and electronics manufacturers; last year, the most-searched-for company was convenience-store chain 7-11. "I think there's extreme panic right now," Wu says...
...Manansang, who was born in Papua, estimates only one or two percent of 67,200 HIV/AIDS sufferers in Papua would qualify for the microchip. "The chip would send off a signal when infected blood comes into contact with non-infected blood so it would monitor the spread." Some 77% of those infected, according to 2006 government data, are indigenous Papuans, who make up about half of the province's population of 2.8 million people. "I am only trying to prevent the extinction of the Papuan people...
...From head to toe, from clear geek glasses to the microchip necklace, Burruss had succeeded in creating a real “look.” “It was an outfit,” Whitman says...