Word: scanning
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...search-and-scan system at airports can be beat Security teams have beefed up airport body-scanning and searching protocols continually since 9/11, but terrorists have been far more aggressive about exploiting their weaknesses. Part of the problem is our chronically reactive approach to airline security: in military terms, the authorities are always fighting the last war. Ever since Richard Reid tried to ignite his shoes, loaded with the explosive pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN), on a flight from Paris to Miami in 2001, U.S. travelers have had to remove their footwear for scanning before boarding. After a plot to blow...
...Google has already digitized some 10 million books - most of them "public domain" works that are out of print, or books whose copyright owners are unknown. Google's strategy thus far appears to have been to scan first, and deal with any copyright issues later - a method that worries authors and publishers. Justice authorities in the U.S. and in Europe have warned Google that it should not secure a monopoly position that would allow it to single-handedly dictate how much the public must pay to access many of the world's great books...
...next year: one can only wonder the contents of the goody bags he’d pass out.) But it takes a startling lack of faith to argue that contemporary creative acts are isolating and worthless simply because they don’t contain the overt moral messages that scan with the church’s higher...
USAGE: "Virtopsies combine 3-D imaging of a body's surface with a CT scan of its interior anatomy. The result is a faithful, high-resolution virtual double of the corpse. This double can be used to accurately determine what killed someone...
...main advantage was that Gordon and his team now had the cutting-edge DNA-sequencing capability to scan and analyze all the genes contained in those bacteria. That meant researchers could determine not only which species of bacteria were present and in what proportions, but also which genes these bugs were actively using in different conditions. Before such genomic-analysis technology became available, researchers could study only the gut microbes (animal or human) that could be cultured outside their intestinal home - something that not all of the oxygen-shunning bugs were amenable to - but never the complete microbiota...