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...past three years, the People's Liberation Army has moved quickly to implement a new military strategy that relies heavily on this kind of technological know-how. In the future it even wants to add such high-tech gizmos as laser beams to zap U.S. satellites that monitor battlefields, bombs emitting electromagnetic pulses that blind missile guidance systems, and computer attacks that could put U.S. command networks on the fritz...
...IAEA has been analyzing satellite photos for signs that Saddam is pursuing nukes. Last month those photos produced images of new buildings going up at a former Iraqi weapons plant that the iaea wants to explore. These experts will wield new high-tech tools - a gamma-spectroscopy monitor known as the Ranger, which is used to detect radiation, and a bright yellow device, known as Alex, that can pick out metals used for nuclear purposes...
Students heading off to college are increasingly accessorizing their library and ID cards with a third card--one that gets them credit. A recent report by Student Monitor found that 52% of current undergraduates use a credit card. Credit companies looking for future big spenders have been attracting the other 48% with cool new designs, including transparent cards, a glow-in-the-dark card (already recalled) and the new kidney-shaped Discover 2GO card that can be worn on a key chain. "Teens today want to customize their credit cards as they do their cell phones," says Michael Wood, vice...
...their own steps. "These numbers, while they sound dramatic, have been reported before," says Duane Kirking, professor and chair of the Department of Social and Administrative Sciences at the University of Michigan College of Pharmacy. "Hospitals do know that errors are happening." Remedies range from introducing new computers to monitor and control prescription medication output to adding better-qualified pharmacy staff. The computers will help cut back on mistakes considerably, Kirking says, but the hospitals are still tied to imperfect technology - and human error - so existing problems can't be solved overnight. Additional staff will help ward off the fatigue...
...June the U.S., working with three environmental groups, canceled $5.5 million of Peru's foreign debt. In exchange, Peru will extend protection to 27.5 million acres of tropical rain forest containing pink river dolphins, jaguars, scarlet macaws and giant water lilies. Nongovernment groups will monitor the protected areas to make sure the regulations are enforced. "It's a public-private partnership in the best sense of the word," says Stuart Irvin, an attorney with Covington & Burling in Washington who gave pro bono legal advice on this deal and similar swaps. "Everyone comes out a winner...