Word: scanners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bolivar Airport were not surprised that the two men were able to board the Aeropostal flight carrying pistols. However, the Air France hijackers eluded security checks at Frankfurt International Airport, which boasts some of the toughest safeguards in the world. No airport X-ray machine or magnetic scanner can detect the liquid explosives the men carried. Moreover, some hostages believe the guns were in a mysterious bag delivered to the hijackers by Iranians at the Tehran airport...
...entry will be a hit. Unlike services offered by rivals such as Western Union and MCI, ZapMail will not require customers to use computer keyboards to send messages. Instead, couriers will pick up and rush material to a Federal Express office, where clerks will feed it into a document scanner for transmission over land lines. At the receiving Federal Express office, a laser printer will spew out copies for couriers to deliver immediately. The firm even vows to give full refunds if documents are late...
...optical scanner that can distinguish among 100,000 pictures, sufficient to read Japanese written characters...
...years ago, doctors began to see more detail with a new kind of X-ray machine that uses a computer to construct clear, cross-sectional views of the body. The CAT scanner (for Computerized Axial Tomography) revolutionized radiology. But now that virtually every large hospital in the country has invested in one, at about a million dollars apiece, another revolution is under way: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, or NMR. Currently being studied for approval by the Food and Drug Administration, the new technology is in experimental use at about half a dozen top U.S. medical centers as well as several overseas...
...physicians' greatest fear was that Clark had suffered a stroke. To check, they ordered sophisticated X-ray images of the brain and heart, using a CAT (computerized axial tomography) scanner. In Clark's case, this proved to be a major undertaking. The scanner is on the first floor, and Clark is tethered by two 6-ft. tubes to 375 Ibs. of equipment that powers his heart and is in turn plugged into outlets for electricity and compressed air. Clark had to be switched to an auxiliary battery and air-supply system that allows temporary mobility. Then...