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...HESS, 96, pioneering obstetrician and gynecologist; in New Haven, Conn. In 1942 Orvan injected a human patient with penicillin in a last-ditch effort to save her and became the first doctor in clinical practice to use the antibiotic successfully. Fifteen years later, he developed the first fetal-heart monitor. Today versions are used in delivery rooms worldwide...
Jacques Baute, a French nuclear-weapons scientist, heads the separate team that searches out nukes. He can field more than 15 IAEA professionals from 11 countries, with possible help from 15 outside experts, who monitor all stages of the nuclear fuel cycle by looking for 40 specific components and analyzing soil and water samples, as well as checking on dual technologies, import-export controls and nuclear smuggling...
...encore, red confetti poured down and giant lips kissed the audience goodbye from the background monitor. Another promising tour had begun. Personally, I felt gratified. Seeing the Rolling Stones live was one of the things I wanted to do before I died. Or rather, before they...
...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...