Word: monitors
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...shows like Fantasy Island and Diff'rent Strokes. Facebook has gone even further. In August it sent out an open invitation to software developers to devise new widgets. Three months later, Facebook has some 7,000 free add-on applications that let members do everything from monitor their stock portfolios to map anyplace they've ever visited to text friends' phones via the site...
...regrettable to see people leave their work and welcome a person who has been disturbing our morality," derided Nsaba Buturo, Uganda's Minister for Ethics and Integrity. Still, crowds of young Ugandans continue to fill dimly lit bars each weekend to monitor the lives of the show's participants, who hail from a range of African countries...
...reason high blood pressure is so diabolical, Ting says, is that it seems so simple to understand. "Every doctor takes blood pressure," says Wong, but very few doctors bother to monitor it on a 24-hour basis to detect dips during sleep or spikes in the first hours after waking. That's important, Ting explains, because "nondippers have three to five times the risk of stroke" and because strokes often occur within three hours of waking, which Ting traces to a "morning surge" in blood pressure...
...concept of transmitting data across a power grid isn't new, but until recently the technology could handle only tiny streams--enough to monitor a few substations but not enough to support high-speed surfing by multiple users. Now new modems and other advances are prompting dozens of utilities around the country to start testing BPL in earnest. Manassas was first out of the gate with Zplug, its commercial service, but others aren't far behind. Cinergy, a utility based in Cincinnati, Ohio, started enrolling BPL customers in late April; the service should be available to 50,000 Ohio homes...
...Decked out in his trademark bow tie and cowboy hat, the secretary-general of Malaysia's Trade and Consumer-Affairs Ministry recently led 100 security agents on a morning raid through a downtown shopping mall, seizing illegal music, video and computer-software CDs. At one retail booth, a television monitor was advertising bootlegged wares. "Take the TV," he ordered, pointing with his gold-tipped walking stick. "We will be back day after day until they shut down forever...