Word: scans
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...mind and heart: many Iraqis viewed America as magically powerful, which raised their hopes and, in some cases, broke their will to resist. One U.S. soldier, when raiding a house in search of weapons, would aim his cheap key-ring flashlight at the scalp of a suspect, then scan from head to toe before flashing the light onto his wristwatch and humming softly. The Iraqi, perhaps convinced that his thoughts and secrets had been electronically captured in a Casio, would often confess...
...really easy way out, click MSN's e-Gift Certificates link. Or scan surprise.com's extensive list of merchants that offer gift certificates by e-mail (see Last-Minute Gifts under What Occasion...
...cardholder really in London? It sounds creepy and intrusive, but tracking exceptions to detect intruders is the basis for several new security approaches. And it has already become an invisible part of our lives. Stolfo has a start-up called System Detection, a two-year-old company whose tools scan networks and applications for code that shouldn't be there. Surveillance of this variety is effective--and it is going to be more pervasive. A number of start-ups are developing technology that sniffs out "aberrant" behavior. Like it or not, somebody is going to be watching...
...which researchers will track ADHD kids between 3 and 8 years old to determine the benefits and side effects of stimulant medications. Castellanos and N.Y.U. colleague Rachel Klein are taking things further, calling back subjects who were enrolled in an ADHD-treatment study that began in 1970 to scan their now late-30s and early-40s brains for the long-term effects of drugs. Castellanos is also planning a study of young rats treated with varying amounts of psychotropic drugs, conducting dosing and anatomical studies that cannot be performed on humans...
...student friendly and technologically feasible, professors should also pursue “e-textbooks.” Class readings stored on CDs or posted on the Internet are much easier for students to share and would come with far lower costs than coursepacks. The Harvard libraries already scan some course texts into e-reserves—a welcome cost-saving measure for students...