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Until there are enough EDS machines to handle all bags, the TSA wants to supplement them with smaller trace machines, microwave-size devices that can detect explosives by testing a cloth that has swabbed the luggage. But these devices have problems too. They require two to three times as much staff as the EDS machines, and security experts say they are highly unreliable unless used according to strict protocols. As Time watched a Denver screener operate one of the trace machines, he had to punch it several times just to get it to register a clear signal...
...world, claiming a 24% market share. Starting with 60 employees after a bankruptcy filing in 1986, the company now employs 5,000 people, had 2001 revenues of $1.1 billion and a profit of $112 million. "Once considered an alternative energy, today wind power is a mainstream, environmentally friendly supplement to other sources of energy," says Svend Sigaard, managing director of Vestas. Sigaard says the future is likely to see more offshore wind farms like the one his company is building at Horns Rev. With its high population density Denmark is running out of room on land. Plus, offshore farms have...
...Until there are enough EDS machines to handle all bags, the TSA wants to supplement them with smaller trace machines, microwave-size devices that can detect explosives by testing a cloth that has swabbed the luggage. But these devices have problems too. They require two to three times as much staff as the EDS machines, and security experts say they are highly unreliable unless used according to strict protocols. As TIME watched a Denver screener operate one of the trace machines, he had to punch it several times just to get it to register a clear signal...
...million. As for Disney's once mighty traditional animated films, the last four (Mulan, Tarzan, The Emperor's New Groove and Atlantis: The Lost Empire) grossed, on average, just $116 million, and the last two didn't make it to $90 million. Pixar films were originally meant to supplement Disney's basic animation menu; instead they have supplanted it. The story is the same at DreamWorks. The CG Shrek scared up $267 million, while the traditional Road to El Dorado cadged a paltry $51 million...
...some students say the professional tracks they have created serve to supplement Harvard’s academic program, giving them both a vocational and a purely intellectual education—even if it does force them to compromise their academics...