Word: pasadena
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
There's fresh interest in a handheld gadget called the Cyranose 320, which can be programmed with the "smellprint" of various microbes and then issue an alert if it detects them. Cyrano Sciences, which is based in Pasadena, Calif., and is associated with the California Institute of Technology, has been selling the electronic nose for more than a year. The company manufactured it for use in the food-service and chemical industries. The device can tell whether basil is fresh and warn if a shipment of fish has started to rot. It can also identify contaminants in perfumes or chemicals...
...that has proved successful, if controversial. Overture invites advertisers to bid for placement in its search results, with the higher bidders getting the top spots. Rather than marketing itself as a destination for users, Overture partners with such companies as AOL and MSN. In October the company, based in Pasadena, Calif., reported its first profitable quarter...
...news for younger children. For teenagers, they suggest parents watch the news with them and discuss it in perspective. Is biological war a real threat? Will the U.S. bombing lead to retaliation? "Kids will react to whatever messages we send them," says Jennifer Johnson, an elementary school counselor in Pasadena, Texas. "If we let them know they are safe, they will feel safe...
Michelle Bodwell, 29, a marriage and family art therapist in Pasadena, Calif., lost her brother Chris when they were teenagers. She found that her parents' grief tended to overshadow her own. People would always ask her how her parents were doing and fail to direct the question to her as well. "Siblings are often the forgotten grievers," says Bodwell. "Now I encourage people to teach others what they need from them...
...Bush the Younger on David Letterman. We put flags on our video graphics, our covers and our lapels. TV networks accepted an unprecedented administration request that they limit their airing of al-Qaeda videotapes. Fox turned over an hour of prime-time (albeit by bumping the very low-rated "Pasadena") for a special terrorism episode of "America's Most Wanted." A consortium of media groups even held off indefinitely on reporting the results of a study of the controversial 2000 presidential vote in Florida, which threatened to perhaps undermine the president's legitimacy. (Investigating the integrity of democratic elections...