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...January they heard they would be shipping out to Iraq. "Of course I had a mother's sick feeling when I heard the word deployment," Dee says. "But I thought, Oh, she's in supply, she'll be safe, she'll never be close to any actual fighting. I trusted her unit, trusted the Army that she got the proper training." Jessica even had a special advantage. She had grown up with her dad's Kenworth cabover truck in the front yard; he gets $1 a mile driving anywhere from Florida to Connecticut. Now she would be the one steering...
...Infrared Fever Screening System, inspired by the recent SARS scare, can't diagnose a medical condition. But it can reveal in a moment whether someone is running a temperature--a sign he or she could be sick and warrant a closer look. The system produces a color-coded thermograph of each passerby: red means hot, green means not. Dozens have been sold for use in airports, hospitals, hotels and other public spaces throughout Asia. INVENTORS Singapore Technologies Electronics and the Singapore Defense Science and Technology Agency AVAILABILITY Now, about $50,000 per unit TO LEARN MORE www.ifss.com.sg...
Until Big got sick, Luk Koong gave his job little thought. At least four times a day for the past 15 years, the stocky Bangkok resident has stripped off his tattered shirt, donned a pair of antiquated goggles and slipped into the murky waters of one of the capital's klongs, or canals, to untangle debris from the propellers of riverboat taxis. The service takes no more than 10 minutes and nets him $2.50 for each dive. Luk Koong, 33, who was raised on the klongs and whose nickname in Thai means "shrimp baby," considered it easy money...
...concerned," admits Bryan Spears, pointing out yet another potentially serious post-flu problem - one that's already starting to turn up on the Internet and in gossip columns, and even sneaking into some magazine articles. "I'm worried people aren't going to believe that she was really sick. She had a 104? fever. But I'm sure some in the media are going to raise questions about it and try to turn it into something else. You know how it works." I'm feeling much better," spears cheerfully announces, swatting away the hair curler dangling down her brow...
Touring seems to have taken its toll on Aesop in other ways too. “I used to really like the songs [on Bazooka Tooth]. Now I’m just sick of them because we’ve just been performing them over and over again,” he says...