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...that would require at least 2,000 highly sensitive giant CT-scan machines. Each of these truck-sized x-ray chambers costs a whopping $1.2 million to install, and while the government has pledged $2 billion for the new machines, there are logistics to consider: At peak capacity, each scanner can accurately examine about 150 bags per hour, or 212 million bags per year. Considering that passengers check about 1 billion bags every year, that estimate seems a bit paltry...
...President's advisers know there is a huge gap between his fond wishes and their possible fulfillment. Some of them have a memory. By the time of the 1992 election, "the new world order" had become mere evidence of the hubris of a President who seemed awed by the scanner at a supermarket checkout. "We had this problem in the early '90s," said a State Department official last week. "You know--'It's a new world, we can do everything.' Our rhetoric was way ahead of where it should...
...designed to beam their grocery inventory to a local store? The Tangs - living guinea pigs in a prototype Internet home sponsored and heavily promoted by the Singaporean government - offer a sheepish explanation. Shortly before I arrived at their model apartment, they ran a bunch of grocery items through the scanner to make it look like they use it all the time. Eager to accommodate, they did so at the urging of the pair of government minders who watch us from the next room. Raymond Tang confesses that he stuck a box of chicken-flavored crackers into the fridge the other...
...state of Florida will no longer be the sinkhole of American democracy, now that the Republican-dominated state legislature (remember that phrase?) passed - nearly unanimously - a comprehensive, better-luck-next-time, $32 million fix for their rickety electoral machinery. Provisions run the gamut from a statewide installation of optical-scanner and touch-screen voting machines to a $6 million voter education program, the state's first-ever expenditure in that area...
...sales of just $500 million a year, the $10 million investment is sizable. But TaylorMade is convinced that it will pay for itself by wringing new efficiencies out of every part of the company. The sales reps will be able to use a Palm handheld device with an attached scanner to assess the inventory quickly and then use the i2 database to place and track orders...