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...detector array records the X rays. Each complete loop creates a spiral slice of the heart composed of 64 thin slices, offering exceptional resolution...
SUPERSMART SMOKE DETECTORS Smoke detectors have made a big leap forward thanks to some simple wireless communication. First Alert and Kidde, the Coke and Pepsi of the smoke-detector business, have new systems that allow battery-powered detectors to share information when a potential fire is brewing. That way alarms can alert everyone in the house, not just those closest to the danger. Best of all, the systems are simple to set up: instead of wading through complex wiring diagrams or calling in the pros for an expensive installation, you just buy a few detectors, place them throughout your home...
...KIDDE WIRELESS SYSTEM includes a detector and the SmokeSounder add-on alarm, which features a lower-frequency siren for the hearing-impaired and spoken alerts that kids can easily understand www.kiddeus.com $50 each for detector and SmokeSounder, available at Lowe...
Aircraft makers are adding improved safety equipment of their own. Boeing is developing a wind-shear detector that it will install on new jetliners starting this summer. The device includes a warning voice that proclaims, "Wind shear! Wind shear!" once the plane enters the deadly turbulence, and provides guidance on how to respond. Boeing is also working with the FAA and United on a program to teach crews to cope with wind shear more effectively...
More than 2 million Americans last year underwent the frequently nerve-racking experience of taking a lie-detector test, or polygraph examination, a threefold increase in a decade. Fully 98% of the tests were ordered not by police but by private employers, who used them mainly to screen job applicants. Now Congress, many of whose members view the tests as a violation of civil rights, is moving to curtail them. Last week, by 236 to 173, the House voted to prevent the general use of the tests by U.S. businesses. Polygraphs, said Montana Democrat Patrick Williams, "in effect require testifying...