Word: sandstorm
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...chip via an attached antenna. Unlike bar codes, which have to be scanned one at a time, an RFID reader can theoretically scan every item in a shopping basket, case or pallet--at one glance, at a distance, even in rotten conditions like inside a freezer or in a sandstorm. Place an RFID reader in a series of gateways, and it can follow supplies from assembly line to store shelves and right out the door with the customer...
Bingham is currently back in Baghdad, where she is working as a photographer covering the reconstruction for The New York Times. The Harvard Business School (HBS) interviewed and accepted First Lieutenant Joe Finnigan while he was still deployed in Iraq. The interview was conducted during a sandstorm with a satellite phone belonging to an embedded reporter...
...March 13, in the midst of a sandstorm, Finnigan called to interview with Kristin Hall, assistant director of MBA admissions...
...Finnigan to ask to interview their son, they said they had no idea how to reach him. With the help of the satellite phone of a reporter embedded with the “3/5,” as his unit is called, Finnigan conducted his interview through a Kuwaiti sandstorm...
...They were in the middle of a sandstorm which kept interfering with the satellite connection, so the phone got cut off three or four times,” she said. “He handled it all very well; he was very mature about...