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...Texas Instruments these days, RFID is the workhorse behind applications like access control, baggage handling, sports ticketing and product authentication. In Plano, Texas, vice president David Slinger traces the genesis of the revolution to 1993, when companies like TI collaborated with carmakers to deter theft. TI, working with the Ford Motor Co., came up with a key that literally talks to a car. Use the wrong key, and the car is immobilized. "RFID transponders are now in 7 out of 10 cars," says Slinger, and car theft is down--as much as 75% for Ford's often-targeted Mustang...
...first criterion—age—I suppose there really isn’t anything I can do other than just wait to get older. Using my trusty TI-82 graphing calculator and assuming that time will continue to flow at a constant rate, I’ve determined that I will be eligible in time for the 2010 election cycle. And seeing as though I have seven and a half years until my 30th birthday, I should probably find something constructive to do in the meantime...
...Break and Instant Messenger. Rather than complaining to their friends about how much work they have and then sequestering themselves for all-nighters, students should discuss thesis research and tutorial paper topics with their peers. Problem sets should be done together over pizza, not just over gnawed pencils and TI-83s. The notion that being social is a form of procrastination stresses students out even further and discourages necessary and potentially productive downtime from Harvard schedules. We shouldn’t close ourselves off and demand a work-free social life or social-free work...
...Although he was raised a Catholic in an East Timor village and was originally named Roberto Freitas, the 39-year-old Hasan became a Muslim when he was still a teenager. He is not the only Indonesian running questionable shelters for East Ti-morese children. The nephew of the former Governor of East Timor, Octavio Soares, has 156 children in his charge and has clashed frequently with U.N. officials seeking their return. Critics claim people like Soares and Hasan are motivated less by altruism and their religious beliefs than by greed. Hasan uses children "as an asset or a bargaining...
...Heroic Ones or Chor Yuen's Killer Clans really look like? What did Hong Kong Nocturne and other Shaw musical extravaganzas sound like? What made audiences fall in love with such prime Shaw stars as Linda Lin Dai, David Chiang, Cheng Pei-pei and the dynamite Tina Ti? Could anyone today actually sit through the film version of a Huangmei opera like The Kingdom and the Beauty...