Word: detecting
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Laboratory tests to detect the hidden hazards are performed on only a tiny percentage of all animals. The problem is most evident in poultry. Studies have indicated that up to one-third of chickens sold to consumers are tainted with salmonella bacteria that can cause food poisoning if the birds are not properly cooked. Yet only 0.5% of chickens are rejected by inspectors. Some of the contamination apparently occurs right under the eye of inspectors, who observe each chicken on the production line for one to three seconds. High- speed eviscerating machines that rip out intestines sometimes spew feces...
...predisposition to heart disease, certain cancers, or a variety of psychiatric illnesses. But they will not be able to predict precisely when -- or even if -- the affliction will strike, how severe it will be and how long and good a life the baby can expect. As scientists learn to detect ever more minute imperfections in a strand of DNA, it will become increasingly difficult to distinguish between genetic abnormalities and normal human variability. "We haven't thought much about how to draw the line," admits Arthur Caplan, director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics at the University of Minnesota...
...them, it must have looked as though we were the only ones who didn't detect them," he said. "Whereas in reality, we were the only ones...
...General Command. Only two months before the Pan Am bombing, during a raid on suspected PFLP-GC terrorists, West German police found a Toshiba Boombeat portable radio that held 10.5 oz. of plastic explosives. An FAA report on the discovery noted that the device "would be very difficult to detect by normal X-ray inspection, indicating that it might be intended to pass undiscovered through areas subject to extensive security controls, such as airports...
...Atlantic. But Flight 103 left Heathrow 25 minutes late. Anticipating such delays, terrorists have used barometers to start a timer only when a set air pressure has developed near the bomb. Since the cargo holds in a 747 are pressurized after takeoff along with the cabin, the barometer could detect this change and start the timer. If such a technique was used on Flight 103, it failed to postpone the blast until the aircraft was over water only because high-altitude winds caused the crew to take a northerly course over Scotland before heading west...