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QUALITY CONTROLS Miniature, stand-alone air samplers that monitor for strange particles, down to .01 micron in size; also, portable, battery-powered water testers to detect biological threats...
INSIDE FILTRATION HEPA filters on vents remove nearly 100% of particulates larger than 1 micron in size and prevent their circulation...
...germs is not as easy as it sounds. The planes are designed to spray pesticides in heavy, concentrated streams, whereas bioweapons are ideally scattered in a fine mist over as large an area as possible. The nozzles in crop dusters are best suited to discharging relatively large particles--100 microns in diameter--not tiny 1-micron specks of bacteria...
PRICE: We have a lot of the stocks that have already been talked about. We're enthusiastic about Veritas, Juniper, Micron Technology, Ciena, BEA, Lexmark. I'll talk about Siebel Systems, which is a software company. I think in general we're enthusiastic about many of the software companies because they don't have to work through a lot of the inventory issues. When companies start spending again, software will get more than its share. The thing I like about Siebel is that they dominate customer relationship management software, which basically allows you to control your sales force and interact...
Folks visiting Queen Charlotte Islands, south of Alaska, shouldn't be surprised if they see Micron PC computer monitors bobbing in the surf. In January 2000, a ship carrying the monitors from Thailand to Seattle ran into a typhoon, which swept about 2,000 units overboard. They're now showing up on Pacific Coast beaches, along with flotsam from other recent spills: an estimated 10,000 Tweety & Sylvester bath mats, 34,000 hockey gloves and 18,000 Nike Cross Trainers. Seattle oceanographer Curtis Ebbesmeyer, who tracks cargo spills with a worldwide network of beachcombers, says, "The North Atlantic and North...