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...Winnebago lurking on the shore of Chesapeake Bay one recent weekend looked like any other mobile camper, but with the radio scanner and communication equipment inside, it resembled a war room in the Pentagon. As a command post for the onshore operations of a marijuana-smuggling confederacy, it had been monitoring the area's police for a week, preparing for a mother ship's arrival in nearby waters. The camper was in contact with small trucks and vans waiting along the coast for the merchandise. As the ship reached the southern tip of Assateague Island, five miles off Virginia...
...West Germany's more promising young boxers. Just last year the sturdily built youth was runner-up in his nation's junior heavyweight competitions. Now KÖpcke's career has been brought to an abrupt halt by an X-ray device known as the CAT scanner...
During one of the routine, twice-yearly physical examinations required for all boxers under West German regulations, a standard electroencephalogram showed an "irregularity" in KÖpcke's brain-wave pattern. Doctors then used the CAT (for "computerized axial tomography") scanner to make cross-section images of the boxer's brain and discovered, in their words, "a fairly common, apparently congenital anomaly between the cerebrum and cerebellum"-a condition that might make him particularly susceptible to injury from blows to the head. Hamburg's amateur boxing association believed it had no other choice; it banned the apparently...
...core of a system that would not only keep up-to-date records on inventories and prices, but also eliminate cash register errors, since check-out clerks would tot up a shopper's bill by merely passing the purchases over an optical scanner capable of "reading" the code. By now, fully 85% of all the merchandise bears...
...sold 45. The other two rivals are Sweda and NCR, which enjoy the advantage of having made cash registers for years. Both companies are concentrating on automated check-out equipment that can be bought on a step-by-step basis: first the cash register and later the electronic scanner and minicomputer. Sweda has installed only 32 fully automated systems so far, but it has electronic registers in 400 stores that it considers prime customers for add-on equipment...