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...Sensors - devices that detect environmental changes - have been around forever in analog form. Traditional thermometers, for instance, use mercury that rises and falls as it responds to temperature changes. More recently, in the information-technology age, network-linked digital sensors are starting to take note of everything from soil conditions to water pollutants to electricity usage. Measurement equals management. The idea is to get optimal use of such resources as fertilizers and energy. But one restriction on modern sensors is that they are built with rigid materials like hard plastic and metal, which give them shape and volume, restricting where...
...aren't yet clear to Barr or anyone else, when the elasticity software is applied, the image of a suspicious lump becomes larger if the lump is cancerous. Conversely, a noncancerous lesion appears smaller in an enhanced image. Additionally, cancerous lesions have a characteristic pattern--a sort of stringy network--whereas benign cysts look like a well-defined bull...
...behind closed doors. The entire 10-person commission will brief the President this Wednesday and then repeat the lesson for congressional leaders, both incoming and outgoing, later the same day. What happens next is designed to be even more convincing: several days of nonstop interviews on every media outlet, network and cable-TV station--a media blitz that will run well into the Sunday-morning news programs...
...most important part, which Disney has perfected, is identifying and developing unknown talent to star in its shows. Like other Disney Channel series, Hannah Montana was cast-contingent when the network green-lighted the concept in 2005. The search for the right actress to play Miley Stewart - Hannah Montana by night - went on for a year. The young woman had to be appealing and cool for tweens but also parent-friendly. Producers say they want actors who can balance school with the demands of a TV show - and not end up in the tabloids. She also had to have musical...
...Hillary Rodham Clinton: Polarizing First Lady” is a new book by Gil Troy ’82, named by History News Network as one of America’s Top 15 Young Historians. As one might expect from a historian, the book is less a contemporary look at Hillary Clinton and more a historical study that covers oft-tread terrain of Hillary’s upbringing, her years at Wellesley and Yale, and her stint in the White House...