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...subject both to intimidation (one poultry inspector was pushed into a plucking machine) and to bribes (money, girls, or all the meat they can eat). As a result, the report charges, they routinely approve "4D" animals-dead, dying, diseased or disabled-for processing. In Massachusetts, a state-inspected processor was permitted to salvage cancerous tumors cut from sick cattle and sell them as "brains" or "sweetbreads" to Boston supermarkets. What makes such horror stories worth chronicling, the Raiders say, is the Agriculture Department's plans to turn its inspection duties over to state agencies...
...really remarkable feature of Avižienis' brainchild is a specially gifted unit dubbed TARP (for Test And Repair Processor). Like a zealous office manager always peering over the shoulders of his clerks, TARP can almost instantly spot errors, determine who has made them, and take steps to discipline or replace the wrongdoer. It constantly monitors the specially coded messages -or interoffice memos, as Avižienis calls them-that pass between the units, and immediately reacts to deviations from normal in the computer chatter. "It's as if a person were to start mispronouncing or slurring words...
...first U.S. Pure Food and Drug Law, passed in 1906, gave, the enforcement authority (now the Food and Drug Administration) no power to rule on the safety of any substance that a food processor proposed to put in his packages. Not until 1958 did Congress give the FDA the power to pass on additives before they went on the market, but by then it had delayed so long that hundreds of additives had been in wide use for many years. So the new law contained a grandfather clause, exempting substances already employed and "generally recognized as safe (GRAS) for their...
Outside the entrance to the MTA, the Men's Auxiliary of the Women's Liberation Front sought signatures in support of its proposed march to the Sigmund Freud Obelisk in Vienna, Austria on January 10, 1970. Rod Weiner, representing a local cucumber processor, offered Kosher dill spears, slim jim beef jerkies, and hot finger pepers for sale to raise money for the Auxiliary...
...astronauts' space helmets. Their voices were fed from the mikes into a small, 3-ft.-sq. box directly behind them in the lunar module. Despite its deceptively simple appearance, the 100-lb. package was the heart of the LM's communications system. Known as a signal processor, it accepted the astronauts' voices as well as 900 other signals-telemetric data on heartbeats, for example, pressure readings in the cabin, data from the computers-and imposed them on a single "carrier" frequency of 2,282.5 megahertz. An amplifier increased the signal's power from half a watt...