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...What the Fancy Machines Can - And Can't - Do New medical technology can probe, scan and make sophisticated diagnoses. But it's up to the body to cure
...Unlike the TSA's troubled and controversial use of computer databases to scan for individuals whose names occur on passenger "watch lists," SPOT is based on observing passenger behavior. George Naccara, the TSA's Federal Security Director who has been overseeing the SPOT program in Boston, is a big booster. "This system is conducted by trained personnel and closely monitored by supervisors," he says. "It provides another significant layer of security...
...read Marx in college "and realized it was all indecipherable hokum." Colon cancer kept him off the air for eight weeks last year. During that time, says Snow, an attendee of Catholic and Episcopal churches, prayers by strangers increased his faith. He took the White House job after a scan of his vital organs came back "pristine...
...Johnson throws in tricks to make the suspension-of-belief easier: he makes sure to scan over the protester outside the White House who has been there since the ’70s, and has Marin wear more conservative clothing as she gets more used...
...sending us messages coded in pulses of light, Professor of Physics and Electrical Engineering Paul Horowitz ’65 will be one of the first to know. The Planetary Society, a leading non-profit space research organization, announced Tuesday that Horowitz will direct a year-long project to scan the Milky Way for light signals sent by extraterrestrial life using a new optical telescope at the Oak Ridge Observatory in Harvard, Mass. The telescope, which was dedicated in a ceremony Tuesday, is the largest optical telescope east of the Mississippi, and is the first of its kind...