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Indeed, in Montana's Little Rockies, a gold mining operation that was abandoned in 1997 after 20 years of cyanide leaching - a method of dissolving gold from ore rocks - is still polluting the area and costing millions in public funds to monitor and treat groundwater. Pegasus Gold, the Canadian mine operator, which has since filed for bankruptcy, paid no royalties on the gold it extracted from the area, and now the Ft. Belknap Tribes of Montana, whose reservations adjoin the Little Rockies mining district, says its surface waters are showing unacceptable levels of iron, arsenic, zinc and nickel. "Our biggest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making Gold Miners Pay | 10/23/2007 | See Source »

Over the next two years, Barnes will monitor how often medical records change for each of the patients in her agency's RFID program, and will track how the caregivers work with the new technology. "You don't have to be a brain surgeon to figure out this has great possibilities," she says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Microchip Tags Safe? | 10/18/2007 | See Source »

Meanwhile, a handful of concerned pet owners have expressed interest in removing RFID chips from their furry companions, but VeriChip hasn't heard of anyone doing so yet. The AVMA officially counsels against removing the chip, while assuring pet owners it will continue to monitor the situation. "At this point we do not recommend that people should stop microchipping," says Dr. Rosemary LoGiudice, a veterinarian and assistant director with the AVMA. "We are actively watching. For the number of animals that are said to actually have microchips, when you consider the number of animals that have been microchipped and returned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Microchip Tags Safe? | 10/18/2007 | See Source »

...lobby of Groupe Danone's headquarters on the Boulevard Haussmann, the company's television ads from around the world play on a video monitor. In a Spanish ad, an attractive woman wearing a jogging bra sweats through her workout, then gulps a bottle of the company's Lanjarón water. This vision of radiant, healthy beauty seems a bit at odds with the packaged cookies tempting visitors at the reception desk. More delicious cookies are waiting in the conference room. But, says Laurent Sacchi, Danone's senior vice president of communications, eyeing one of the cookie packets, these...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Danone Cuts Out the Cookies | 10/18/2007 | See Source »

...retrieve emergency medical information; VeriChip is also marketed in South America as a way to track kidnap victims. But it's not hard to imagine more Orwellian scenarios, in which prison inmates or even immigrants would be tagged with RFID implants to make it easier for the government to monitor them. Bizarre as it sounds, these ideas have been floated seriously enough that earlier this month Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger--possibly flashing back to the tracking implant he had in his nose in Total Recall--formally banned the forced implantation of RFID tags in humans in the state of California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tag, You're It | 10/18/2007 | See Source »

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