Word: detect
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...radar-balloon perimeter that the U.S. Customs Service has been trying to raise along the Mexican border to detect drug smuggling is not flying high. Last December one of the Texas-based gas bags broke loose from its tether near Eagle Pass and began drifting south, alarming federal officials with the prospect of an international incident with Mexico. A shift in the wind pushed the device back into Texas, where it was deflated by remote control. In April a balloon at Marfa, Texas, was buffeted on the ground by winds and self- destructed. Another balloon that...
...visible starlight that Hubble is now able to collect and magnify is no better than that seen by landlocked observatories. It is impossible for Hubble to find a planet circling a distant star or detect a black hole at the center of a galaxy. At least 40% of the experiments planned for the telescope will have to be postponed until engineers can make lenses for the craft's instruments that will compensate for the mirror's flaw. Astronauts will then have to ride the shuttle into orbit and space walk to the telescope, where they will fit the new lenses...
There is no prospect that Washington will soon cancel the trade embargoes Congress put in place in 1986, and George Bush will probably tell Mandela as much during their planned meeting at the White House. Europe, however, is wavering. Officials of the European Community say they detect movement toward "rewarding" the De Klerk government for its reforms...
...rest died from unrelated causes. Using a simple procedure involving common laboratory techniques, the scientists were able to identify 86% of the patients who had been stricken with Alzheimer's. The scientists expect that within two years they will be able to develop a similar test that would detect ADAP in spinal fluid taken from living patients...
...week Warner-Lambert, a New Jersey pharmaceutical firm, applied for Government permission to market Cognex, a brand of tacrine, a drug that supposedly slows the loss of brain function in 40% of Alzheimer's patients who are given the medication. Such a drug, along with the new test to detect the disease, could conceivably add one or more productive years to the lives of Alzheimer's victims...