Word: transmitting
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Public health officials have concentrated their efforts on immunizing schoolchildren, who often transmit the rubella virus to pregnant women. Now the U.S. Public Health Service's Center for Disease Control in Atlanta is urging local authorities to turn their attention to the women themselves...
Hegge relates that Jarring relented on two points. He received the writer informally for 20 minutes at the embassy and agreed to send a letter from Solzhenitsyn to the Swedish Academy via diplomatic pouch. But Solzhenitsyn emerged, says Hegge, with the decided impression that Jarring would be unwilling to transmit his planned Nobel Prize lecture in the same manner. Solzhenitsyn had intended to spend five months writing the lecture for publication in Stockholm. Since the Soviets regularly confiscate his mail, the pouch was the only means of transmitting it. Hegge is convinced that the Swedish embassy's rebuff...
...Klass describes, for example, the nation's latest SAMOS (satellite and missile observation system), "the Big Bird," launched just two months ago. A giant, twelve-ton spacecraft capable of working aloft for at least several months, the Big Bird combines the capabilities of several earlier satellites. It can transmit high-quality pictures by radio, and eject capsules of exposed film which then drop by parachute. The Big Bird also includes infra-red heat-sensing equipment that allows it to "see" through Siberian ice and snow to locate Soviet underground weapons. The heaviest concentration of long-range Russian missiles, Klass...
MONITORING of the environment has been sharply stepped up. There are now, for instance, 10,000 water-quality stations to constantly check the nation's fresh waters. In New York State, 22 monitors, linked by special telephone lines, transmit data on pollution levels to a central computer located in Albany. By pinpointing unusual concentrations of air and water pollutants, officials can more easily locate sources of trouble. Meanwhile, the Environmental Protection Agency is working on plans for an integrated monitoring system to provide similar data for nationwide pollution control...
...enables him to control a motorized wheelchair by eye movements alone. Manufactured by Hayes International Corp., and originally intended for use by astronauts, the Sight Switch uses eyeglass-mounted sensors to measure the intensity of light reflected from the whites of the operator's eyes. The sensors then transmit their readings to a computerized box on the wheelchair...