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...transponders used on commercial jets. The device beams a truck's location by satellite to fleet managers, while a two-way messaging system allows drivers and trucking officials to stay in touch. Qualcomm Inc. of San Diego offers truckers a panic button. When it's pushed, a ping sounds in the company's network management center, a NASA-style command base with 31 computer monitors. In an emergency, an operator can alert authorities to the location of the truck in distress...
This recreational space should be a new and improved Loker. It should have good, brand-name food and remain open late. It should have scores of tables where Harvard students will be seen talking, laughing and eating late at night. It should have ping-pong and pool tables. In effect, it should be the student center that most other universities provide for their students...
...could have been really awful...but it wasn’t,” he said. “They had a ping pong table. I had a bed and the food was better than Annenberg, actually...
...ports that launched Zheng He's fleets, they are long gone, destroyed by five centuries of tumult and neglect. But there are still treasure boats of a sort that ply the Liu Creek, where the armada once assembled. Fan Ping owns one of them, the Sutai Yuyou 503, a small steel ship that doubles as her family's home. It's just 10 m long; the engine a mere 20 h.p. But the 49-year-old matriarch uses the modest craft to ply the waterways for riches. She finds oil spills, sucks them up with a powerful hose and resells...
...year sentence; in Rossosh, Russia. Tobin, once a military-intelligence trainee, was arrested for marijuana possession in Voronezh, where he had been studying Russian political evolution, and later accused of (but never charged with) espionage. According to prison wardens, the foreign student passed the time by playing Ping-Pong, chess and the guitar...