Word: tagging
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...said they would send no money, and only Dean and Lieberman said they were willing to send the full $87 billion. The other six candidates hedged, conceding the need to send money and stressing the importance of supporting the troops while remaining skeptical of the hefty price tag...
...colorful pizza is smothered with grilled chicken, jalapenos, pineapple, Monterey Jack cheese and a chipotle barbeque sauce that certainly packs a punch. The heat is manageable, but there are too many competing flavors and the chipotle eventually becomes overpowering. The specialty Shrimp Scampi pie carries a $25 price tag, but the sophisticated combination of succulent Tiger shrimp and Pecorino Romano cheese make it a worthwhile splurge...
...facility in the Iraqi desert by using wristbands with RFID chips. By scanning the wristbands, medical personnel could access treatment and track patients in a central database. "In Iraq the real challenge was tracking noncombatants, but ultimately we hope every soldier will have an RFID tag," says Lisa Mantock, president of Texas-based ScenPro, which developed the software. Using similar technology, Calipatria State Prison in California became the nation's first such facility to monitor guards and inmates alike with TSI PRISM, a tracking technology using RFID wristbands that look like large diver's watches. The surveillance curtails violence...
...more pragmatic. Shanghai and 44 other cities already use an RFID payment system for public transportation. In Singapore's library system, all 9 million books, videos and DVDs are embedded with antitheft chips, allowing self-checkout. "With bar codes, you need to precisely align the reader and the tag, but with RFID even old people and young children can use the system," says library-board senior development manager Wong Tack Wai. With costs down to 40¢ an item, libraries in Australia, South Korea, New Zealand and Macau have adopted the island's patented system...
...height of the SARS epidemic, the city's oft stumbling tourism bureau was running an ad campaign with the unintentionally ironic tag line "Hong Kong: it will take your breath away." Not that there could have been anything that would have inspired tourism then. As overworked medical officials covered in chemical-warfare gear raced to the next hot spot, multinationals were evacuating staff, and international trade fairs were being rescheduled. "It was really scary," recalls Cliff Wallace, managing director of the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, which is back to its normal slew of shows...