Word: scans
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...Another picture for the memory bank: In a dark room in Lowell, Luci and I, in iron aprons, stand on either side of our first-born child as she holds one of our fingers in each of her little hands and is gently slid backwards into the CAT-scan machine, whose rays begin to dance before her eyes. "Don't talk, Sweetie," I say to her as she moans. "Just a minute more...
...scan, negative...
...trusts his 12 employees to stay away from the drug smugglers, but he pays his men only $50 a week, and that makes them easy marks for even small bribes. Customs officers take no chances. They direct Castano's Chevy to a large X-ray machine, big enough to scan two semis at once, that can sometimes detect what the sniffer dogs may miss...
February 9, 1976: Magnetic strips are added to students’ bursar cards in order to limit access to University facilities. The University plans to experiment later in the spring with shoebox-like readers that scan the magnetic strip to determine the validity of ID cards...
...Still, 15 million to 20 million Net surfers have posted a photo online, according to the research firm Infotrends, and a quarter of those have actually ordered prints. Since only about 5% of Americans have converted to digital cameras, most sites now help scan old-fashioned film online as well. Here's a snapshot of some of the top imagemakers...