Word: monitors
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Only about the size of a collegiate dictionary, the Brick is small enough to take home (where it can be plugged into another monitor and keyboard) without transferring files or juggling floppies. Ergo president and Brick designer Tom Spalding, 41, says the machine comes in "boring beige" and in a postmodern granite finish, which he likes a lot better. "We're not a traditional vendor," says Spalding, who previously made millions in hot-tub and stereo- equipment ventures. "It's much more fun doing neat, clever designs...
Each year Saudi Arabian border guards monitor transports carrying Muslim pilgrims back from Mecca. The purpose is to discourage any of the 2 million or so visitors from staying on illegally; a fine of 1,604 riyal (about $430) is levied for each person recorded as entering the country who does not appear on a checklist of those leaving. This year companies bearing the Turkish faithful home have so far been forced to pay some 200,000 riyal ($54,000) for no-shows. The trouble is, almost all of them were probably among the 1,426 killed in the July...
...regular dialogue between East and West. C.S.C.E. is merely a name attached to occasional, and irregular, meetings. But the NATO chiefs proposed giving it the rudiments of an organization: a program for meetings of the heads of government at least once a year, a small secretariat, a mechanism to monitor elections in all the member countries and a Center for the Prevention of Conflict "that might serve as a forum for exchanges of military information ((and)) discussion of unusual military activities...
...study is being conducted by the Center for Circadian Medicine at the Brigham and Women's Hospital. Participation involves a week of home monitoring, then living in our lab, free from time cues, for up to 15 days (and nights). We monitor your temperature, EEG and hormone patterns. Those completing the study will earn $700 to $1,000. If interested call...
...soon as the line on the heart monitor went flat, Kevorkian called the police. Though he claims he never wanted publicity, he took center stage last week in a media barrage that ricocheted from Crossfire to Nightline, Good Morning America to Geraldo. Describing his device as "humane, dignified and painless" -- and his critics as "brainwashed ethicists" or "religious nuts" -- Kevorkian insisted that he wanted only to help patients in distress. "My biggest enemies," he says, "are the medical organizations because the independent doctors tell me they are behind me, but they can't speak...