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...people know RFID, if they're aware of it at all, as the technology behind cash-free highway tolls, but it goes way beyond that. Retail giants like Wal-Mart use RFID tags for inventory management, to help keep track of exactly what is precisely where in their vast tentacular supply chains--Wal-Mart announced earlier this month that it had RFID-enabled forklifts in 975 of its North American stores. RFID tags are embedded in tires. They're in library books and credit cards and lift tickets. The military uses them to track assets in Iraq. The Venetian Casino...
...coming performers would rather be heard on the subway. Paris' transit authority RATP is fast becoming a hotly contested sound stage. Since 1997, Antoine Naso, a 21-year RATP veteran and the authority's self-designated artistic director, has selected a range of entertainers to fill the Metro's tentacular halls with world music, rock and jazz standards or classical melodies...
When will the Soviet Union become a multiparty democracy? Given the current Communist monopoly on power and a tentacular organizational structure reaching across the country, probably not any time soon. Yakovlev cautioned last week against drawing too many comparisons between events in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, pointing out that most of those countries enjoyed a tradition of multiparty politics. One interim stage might be the formation of national fronts, uniting Communist factions. Groups advocating "fascism, terrorism, militarism and nationalist extremism" will not meet the criterion for registration, but it is unclear just who will decide who qualifies...
...Barzini observes, "nobody wears black unless he has to, and the empire has gone the ways of Nineveh and Tyre, its domination of the world is over, the awesome fleet and the tentacular intelligence service are but memories, and the sagacity of its statesmen almost (but not entirely) vanished." Nevertheless, says Barzini, the Britons realize their limitations. Helas, the French do not. They insist upon being treated as Europe's grandest military, economic, cultural and gustatory power. In fact, he notes, "foreigners have to remind themselves they are not dealing with a country that really exists, a country many...
...figure that one agent can recruit ten collaborators. The real danger lies in the tentacular nature of this espionage network." At the center of the network in France is the Soviet embassy, a neo-Stalinist white marble bunker located near the Bois de Boulogne. The KGB also operates out of the ambassador's downtown residence, the trade mission, the consulate, Aeroflot offices, the TASS news agency and through Soviet delegations to international organizations like UNESCO...