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...visitors with its ballroom size and sophisticated monitors. "While freight cars and locomotives haven't changed in two decades," he says, "most people have not seen an ops center like ours, not even at NASA in Houston." Automated readers, located every 30 miles along the 33,000-mile system, scan the bar codes of passing cars and locomotives--basically the rail version of a toll tag--and wirelessly transmit that information. Customers can log on to the company's website to track shipments in near real time or get the data sent to their BlackBerries...
...closed my eyes, I no longer saw a room full of students eager to prove that they had completed 200 pages of reading by spouting off facts from the three pages that they had managed to scan before class or from the lecture notes they had jotted down while slipping in and out of a soporific state...
...your eyes scan the rest of the page. Arizona State is already 9-2. “It can’t be!” you say. Cal State Fullerton is 6-7. Stanford? A nice, tidy...
...will be able to scan what you want for lunch,” he said. “Now, you can see food in the servery and decide what to eat, and then you come out to the dining area and see other food and want that. The current system leads to food waste...
...group, who says his name is Khaled, 31, claims his men conduct "regular" attacks against U.S. forces. Saddam Hussein's capture has done nothing to quell their deadly ambitions, because they are fired not by loyalty to the old regime but by religious zeal. As his charges scan the night skies for U.S. aircraft, Khaled explains that he receives instructions to attack U.S. forces from fundamentalist imams in local mosques, who "take their orders from the Holy Koran." He says, "We are fighting for Iraq and for Islam...