Word: monitors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...guidance of gastroenterologist Dr. Edgar Achkar, is about to explore the lower third of my colon for polyps. After enemas are administered, I am in position. A congenial nurse named Debby clutches my hand reassuringly. Achkar wonders if I would like to see the proceedings on a video monitor. Suddenly a world I never imagined existed lights the screen. I am awestruck, feeling the amazement that a spelunker might experience upon discovering a similarly rose-colored passage deep in the earth. But my wonder is quickly tempered; the exploration I am witnessing is in my own bowels, not the earth...
Software for filtering out smut has got downright sneaky. Prudence from Blue Wolf Network in Berkeley, Calif., keeps a hidden log of all websites kids visit so parents can monitor them on the sly. Meanwhile, Surf-Watch Educational Edition at once blocks X-rated sites and diverts kids to educational sites such as the Children's Television Workshop and the Tech Museum of Innovation...
Each year the Multinational Monitor, a Washington-based organization, names 10 companies that it alleges maintain the worst working conditions, create environmental hazards or engage corruption...
...addition to Nike, Columbia/HCA and Occidental Petroleum, Harvard invests in Elf Aquitaine, TRW, Tyson Foods and American Electric Power, companies which the Multinational Monitor alleges are involved in improprieties including bribery, international coups or maintaining substandard working conditions...
...Cupboard in 150 of its markets, offering food on a par with Boston Market. Fleming has also begun a new market prototype in Hartsfield, Ohio, called the IGA Supercenter. At the 62,000-sq.-ft. grocery behemoth, shoppers can drop off their kids at an on-site center and monitor them on TVs set up in the aisles; pick up traditional food or a hot entree, or take a lesson at IGA's cooking school; withdraw money at the store bank; pick up their dry cleaning; and send a fax at the business center...