Word: scans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other was an enemy, and we kept our countries and our people at arm's length. Even so, secrets slipped out. But how do you guard your nation against information-hungry friends or business partners? What do you do to keep national-security secrets when a foreign scientist can scan our unclassified journals for weapons know-how; a foreign student can work inside our top research labs; a foreign company can buy our high-performance computers, aerospace tools, telecommunications technology...
...even if e-mail is considered inviolate, there are tactics by which the alert parent can control it. America Online, the Internet service provider used by nearly 17 million households, allows parents to limit incoming e-mail to a finite list of correspondents. In any e-mail program, a scan of the senders' addresses can give you a good idea of the nature of your kid's correspondents. The proliferation of mailing lists being such a Web commonplace, what's coming in can sometimes tell you what's been going out: even unsolicited e-mail--from, say, a Ku Klux...
...ready to start entering appointments. Since the first day of my newly organized life was a Friday, the first order of business was, um, pleasure. I found the movie listings easily enough, but had to drill down several levels for the reviews, and unfortunately there was no way to scan recommended films or buy tickets online. I could see which books were just released and read reviews from a link to barnesandnoble.com but couldn't get a list of upcoming titles. On the other hand, I was able to send a note to my mother reminding her that...
BETTER THAN A BIOPSY The FDA has approved a handheld imaging device that can help doctors decide whether to perform a biopsy when the results of a mammogram are ambiguous. The device, called T-Scan 2000, sends a tiny jolt of electricity to suspicious breast tissue; potentially malignant cells conduct electricity differently than normal cells do. T-Scan is not meant to replace a mammogram, but it may prevent some 200,000 unnecessary biopsies a year...
...your classes?"..."How are your friends?" Normal questions, the same old routine. Then, "There's something I need to tell you." Her hands stretched out across the table as I fiddled with soggy Sweet and Low wrappers. "Pop's score went up. They had to do a bone scan to see if the cancer had spread...