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...Cool New World Your article "biochips for everyone!", on computer microchips that can be implanted in humans, set off alarm bells [Nov. 14]. While each chip contains a personal ID number that could be scanned like a bar code and provide needed medical data, there is a serious danger. The government or anyone smart enough to hack a security system could end up using biochips to track a person's movements and activities. Should biochips become commonly used, people might then be forced to have them implanted. And if that happened, anyone who did not have a biochip could...
...DANGER OF RADICAL ISLAM TIME: How serious is the threat? LEE: This battle is going to be won and lost in the Middle East. The problem in Iraq is very grave. If the jihadists win there, I'm in trouble here. [Their attitude will be]: We've beaten the Russians in Afghanistan, we've beaten the Americans and the coalition in Iraq. There's nothing we cannot do. We can fix Southeast Asia too. There will be such a surge of confidence for all jihadists. The U.S. must be seen?if not to have prevailed or to have created...
...received favorable reviews and plenty of buzz. Based on the book See No Evil by former cia operative Robert Baer, the film looks at the danger of U.S. reliance on Middle Eastern oil. The film may earn back its investment. But Skoll cares even more about its spurring a serious discussion on alternative energy. In partnership with the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Sierra Club and Terra Pass, Skoll asks viewers to lobby Congress for more investments in renewable energy and presents ways to reduce oil dependence. With three movies under his belt--and a box-office...
Hoping to get--or give yourself--an iPod, PC or DVD player this holiday season? Why not put those playthings to work? Keeping New Year's resolutions will be a little easier with these new tools designed to transform your high-tech toys into serious fitness equipment...
...terminal stores various grades of petroleum-based fuel for cars and airplanes, and is used by a variety of oil companies. It normally loads about 400 tanker trunks a day, and has pipelines connecting to Heathrow and Gatwick airports. Though the terminal is the country?s fifth largest, no serious disruption to gasoline supplies is expected as emergency plans to draw from other depots kick in. Fire chiefs said they had extinguished a fire at a nearby warehouse caused by the explosion, but were waiting to assemble enough equipment and foam from nearby districts before tackling the main blaze-which...