Word: pager
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...Chengde People's Procurate, the government alleged four men flagged down a taxi at the Chengde railway station on the night of the murder. After one asked the driver to stop so that he could relieve himself, all four attacked him with knives, stole about $50, a pager and some keys, and buried the body in a nearby field. With no witnesses to the crime, the prosecution's case relied on the confessions and two pieces of evidence: a knife found in one defendant's home that had blood of the same type as the driver and a cigarette butt...
...that vague notion of “substance” that was pleasingly absent from the first issue. That impulse is where “The Truth About Bottled Water” comes from; same with the piece on women in HIV advocacy and Sebastian’s six-pager on relationships on “How to Live Happily Ever After.” All of it’s pretty good—spring, for whatever reason, makes much more sense for Freeze than winter—and any complaints about the editors abandoning their dedication to escapism...
...case of a crisis, administrators can reach members of their response teams through a cascading notification system that first tries office numbers, and then drops down to cell, home, and pager numbers to organize a team conference. If someone cannot be reached, there is a designated alternate that the system tries to contact in the same manner...
...elusive. But researchers at Princeton University have been developing a new technique for collecting data about what activities make people feel good - and what they find bothersome. Many academics employ an older system that Csikszentmihalyi helped develop called the Experience Sampling Method (ESM). Subjects are beeped (via a pager or hand-held device) at random intervals during the day, usually every few hours, at which point they jot down what they're doing, who they're with and how they feel: bored or very much enjoying themselves...
...their peers won't buy one until they buy it." Marketers call this treacherous patch of a new product's path to the mass market "the chasm." Companies typically cross it by getting a foothold in a commercial market until consumers grow accustomed to the technology. The pager, for instance, was used mainly by doctors before everybody else caught on. PCs, VCRs, GPS: each crossed the chasm as the price dropped and their utility became obvious...