Word: monitorable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some scientists would even like to utilize space technology. Michael 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...
...clerk was assigned to monitor office copying machines and discourage employees from duplicating their personal letters or their children's homework. Savings: $6,000 a month...
Such a system would involve a fleet of ships and a chain of automatic sensing buoys, plus aerial photography and satellite observation. The system would be used to spot the source of pollutants like oil, mercury and lead. It would also monitor oxygen levels in the seas and "red tides," the abnormal growth of phytoplankton that can choke out other forms of marine life. Obviously, such a system will need the political support of nations that now exploit and degrade the seas...
...Harvard and other universities will presumably understand that the CRRC fully intends to monitor research in the Black community," Jones added...
Gary H. Barnes, author of the article and editor of the newspaper, charged that the university police were ordered by Chief of Campus Security Frederick Barrett to monitor activities of militant students. He said that Barrett passed the information to "close friends...