Word: detector
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Oder said the fire broke out at the rear of the home, near the kitchen or television room. It failed to trigger a smoke detector and a fire alarm...
...crib alarm may aid those rescues. Tested since 1973 at Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital, the device consists of an electrode belt strapped on a sleeping baby, and a nearby monitoring machine that blasts a 70-decibel alarm (about as loud as a smoke detector) if the baby stops breathing for 20 seconds or if its heart slows. Of 270 apnea-prone babies enrolled in the program, three died when the device failed to rouse their parents. Since then, the alarm has been made louder, and 60% of the babies have had attacks with no fatalities; 160 have graduated...
...banks must provide even more of their own security. In some branches, New York's Citibank has been installing floor-to-ceiling Plexiglas "bandit barriers" between tellers and customers. Banks are also using sophisticated detector devices to increase the robber's risk of being caught. Among them: scented capsules wrapped inside rolls of bills, which, when squeezed, release the strong identifying odor of rotten eggs, and dye packs inserted in stacks of bills, which spew out smoke that stains everything it touches bright crimson. A few bankers' groups offer rewards for tips leading to the arrest...
...matter may never emerge. Under questioning by committee members, Byers has stuck by the informant's account of the $50,000 bounty on King. It is not clear whether he also confirmed that the money was paid to Ray. The committee plans to administer a lie-detector test to Ray about the tale; he will be removed from jail to testify at the hearings. But Kauffmann and Sutherland have both died, and their widows insist that their husbands had nothing to do with the murder of the civil rights leader...
State investigators questioned Rowe again about the bombing and had him take two lie-detector tests last fall. He flunked both of them. Just why he failed is in dispute. Some Birmingham detectives now suspect that he was with the Klansmen who planted the bomb. State investigators think Rowe may only have been withholding key information about the crime from interrogators...