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Unless the mines can be found first. "There are a lot of promises in land-mine detection, but still, what people often come back to is the guy poking around with a stick," says Elleholm, speaking of technologies such as ground-penetrating radar, infrared devices and thermal neutron activation. Many current methods are slow and cover no more than 1% of the estimated 77,220 sq. mi. of the world's land-mine-infested territory every year. Elleholm says Aresa's technique can cover five times as much ground in the same amount of time as other detection techniques...
...tons Amount of cocaine Costa Rican authorities seized last week from smugglers in a 49-ft. low-riding speedboat--originally reported to be a submarine--covered in lead laminate to avoid radar detection and camouflaged in ocean-colored fiber glass...
...backgrounds—meant that the issue was polarizing and thus, rarely forced. Religion was a guidebook for living morally but never a checklist for acting “correctly.” While a headscarf was therefore never on my parents’ agenda or even on my radar when I was growing up, I realized this summer that the hijab is omnipresent in many peoples’ lives, whether they like it or not.It’s ironic—though the justification for the hijab is to make women less preoccupied with their looks, I have...
...after senior Brian Cusworth’s eligibility runs out at the end of January. With Cusworth out of the lineup, there will be even more pressure on Goffredo to produce as he did from the start of his junior year. This past season, Goffredo exploded onto the Ivy radar when he tallied an Ivy League season-best 33 points in the team’s first Ivy game, a win over Dartmouth. En route to finishing second on the team in points and first with a 14.9 ppg average, he was a constant threat from long range, Only Cornell?...
...government’s financial heft affords it a unique position to place low-income nations on universities’ radar screens. On Sept. 29, Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., introduced a bill that would require federally funded universities to make the drugs developed from their discoveries available to poor countries at a low cost...