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...reality, in 2001, is that my high-school freshman sister has a cell phone and that I occasionally plug Kevin's name into a Google search field. And that cell phone carriers in the U.S. are scrambling to meet the fall deadline to start rolling out location-pinpointing services that, by law, will have to be reliable enough to track all their cell-phone subscribers at least 66% of the time. The only people who will have die-hard access to this information are the folks who answer emergency calls to 911. They're the folks who lobbied...
...murder, the police have also carted away three steamer trunks, five boxes and six suitcases of Bakley's documents, photos and recordings. "She was a pack rat," said Braun. "She kept every document involved with her." The documents, he says, will help identify Bakley's enemies and perhaps pinpoint a suspect from the countless scams she worked, including trying to pass hundreds of thousands of dollars in bad checks, claiming affairs with celebs and perpetrating a lonely hearts con game. An excerpt from one of her "Dear single guy" notes: "Honey, please hurry and send me at least...
...students then broke up into smaller groups to analyze the fingerprints, footprints, ransom note and other clues. ExperiMentors volunteers led chromotography demonstrations to pinpoint what type of ink was used to write the ransom note and looked at hair and cloth from the crime scene under microscopes...
...can’t pinpoint when it happened, but somewhere between sixth and eighth grade I started hanging out with the 10 other white kids in my 200-person middle school class. My school, two blocks from my house, was over 50 percent Hispanic...
...parent's worst fear--a device that finds a lost child. Wherify's Personal Location System packs a global positioning receiver, pager and wristwatch into a plastic bracelet. It will be available this summer for about $300, plus a $10-$25 monthly fee. Parents can page kids directly or pinpoint their location via phone or the Web. A version of the device for seniors is in the works...