Word: tentacular
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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...