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...Wellesley, Mass. Instead of sticking with the traditional treatment of two insulin shots a day, he began what is called "intensive therapy" four years ago. In that approach, he receives insulin more or less continuously, as needed. Around his waist McDonald wears an insulin pump the size of a pager, which infuses the hormone through a slender needle positioned just below his skin. Anticipating meals, McDonald can increase the amount of insulin he receives by dialing in a number. McDonald carries with him a finger pricker and a pocket-size glucose monitoring machine. Eight times a day he checks...
...receptor will be marketed by AT&E, a San Francisco-based telecommunications firm, starting next month in Portland, Ore., and in 16 other U.S. cities by the end of 1991. Motorola and Timex plan to market a similar watch later this summer. The pager watches, however, will not have the voice capabilities of Tracy's timepiece anytime soon. Says Charles Skibo, president of AT&E: "That would run a battery down real fast...
Stoll said he gives his girlfriend credit for his big break in the case. He said that because she was annoyed by the constant beeping of the electronic pager, she suggested he lay a trap for the hackers...
...cocaine and one telephone beeper. In two earlier police raids the haul included 89 captured rocks of cocaine, eleven packs of heroin, a dinner plate used for dope cutting -- and three beepers. Such inventories highlight a trend that authorities are noticing around the country: the telephone beeper or pager, long used as a stay-in-touch device by doctors, plumbers and electricians, is now the gadget of choice for the dope industry as well. "Beepers," says Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney Curtis Hazell, "are the single most common tool of the drug trade...
Police use beepers too, and they sometimes provide unexpected leads. When an unfamiliar number mysteriously appeared on Miami Police Detective Juan Garcia's digital pager, he dialed it and received an order for 35 lbs. of marijuana. Garcia promised to deliver the goods, went to the designated meeting place and arrested four eager buyers who showed up with $13,000 to make their purchase...