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...applications for these sleuthing technologies range from deciphering buying trends in retail outlets to identifying dangerous chemicals. Want to know how many razor blades are selling in Prague or Pittsburgh? Slap a radio tag--a computer chip that allows a product to be tracked on its journey from manufacturer to consumer--on every pack of Gillette blades, and you will get your answer in a hurry. That's the specialty of Alien Technology, an eight-year-old company based in Morgan Hill, Calif. The same tags can help track weapons too, and the U.S. Department of Defense just commanded...
...second Johnson goal came at 1:43 in the second period. As Harvard captain Kenny Smith got ready to slap a shot at the crowded UMass goal, he drew two rushing defenders, which cleared the net for Johnson down...
With 7:42 remaining in the game and the teams deadlocked at one goal apiece, the captain sailed a slap-shot past Friar goalie Jana Bugden to lift No. 3 Harvard (8-0-0, 2-0-0 ECAC) to a 2-1 victory at Bright Hockey Center...
...cashier had not deactivated its anti-theft insert, but I couldn't help wondering if the book was screeching at being trapped in the same bag with liberal-bias critic Bernard Goldberg's best seller Arrogance: Rescuing America from the Media Elite. (One Franken chapter is titled "I Bitch-Slap Bernie Goldberg.") "Let me desensitize Mr. Franken for you," the guard said...
...slump, never mind yesterday's vows? With about a 4% deficit, Germany, in 2004, will be above the limit for the third year in a row. The defendant duo's message to the European Commission was blunt: Sorry, some of us are more equal than others, and don't slap us with a heavy fine just because we broke the stability pact. They won the day for the same reason that a schoolyard bully gets away with stealing lunch money: the others simply aren't strong enough to stop him. So Belgium, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg and Portugal voted...