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...Smoke Alarm ZigBee is a new wireless technology that efficiently transmits short data messages. Smoke alarms by Freescale Semiconductor will use ZigBee and run for months on regular batteries. That way, people upstairs could get an early warning if a fire breaks out in the basement. In prototype...
...interplay of the couple. Here it is effectively gutted by their removal of the male voice, stripping the tune of its original charisma and replacing it with vocalist Sally Ellyson’s somnambulant, though urbane, croon. Here and elsewhere on the album, her voice lacks any of the smoke or hue that lends distinction to good country singing. As a result, the album drifts by affably and forgettably. None of this is helped by the excessively and almost comically maudlin lyrics, as in “Receiver,” with its chorus of “I will...
...group may have been plotting. Reports on the British investigation, now circulating among U.S. law-enforcement agencies, assert that the group was trying to construct a crude radiological dirty bomb. The arrests (which followed a yearlong surveillance operation, code-named Operation Spangle) turned up a cache of household smoke detectors, which the British suspect the group wanted to cannibalize for their minute quantities of americium-241, a man-made radioactive chemical. Officials tell TIME it's extremely unlikely that enough americium could be harvested from smoke detectors to create a device potent enough to inflict radiation sickness, let alone kill...
Sweating it out in streets full of smoke and the odor of cordite, Purdy and his troops found cover in firing positions littered with flesh from insurgents blown apart by U.S. cannon fire from an armored vehicle. Pinned down by snipers, the men were trapped alongside the corpses, battling a stench that grew stronger as the morning wore on and the temperature climbed. When at last the platoon could move, it could do so only under the cover of chattering guns and multicolored smoke grenades. By then, the rebels that the platoon was fighting had simply melted away. "This enemy...
...worked with the student group and the Trustees of the Advocate to address our safety concerns with the building,” said Assistant Dean of the College Paul J. McLoughlin II. He said that chief among administrators’ concerns were the wiring of emergency lights and additional smoke detectors, as well as the removal of a mattress...