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...Supreme Court left intact the conviction of a St. Louis man on charges of marijuana-growing despite the fact that the FBI nabbed him using data gathered by flying over his house in a helicopter equipped with an infra-red detector. Joseph Pinson claimed that the FBI obtained the evidence -- later used as a basis for a search warrant -- illegally in July 1991. But a lower court, in affirming Pinson's conviction, said "Pinson did not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in the heat emanated from his home." The Supreme Court, acting without comment, left intact Pinson's conviction...
...symptoms and restricted diet aren't enough, many diabetics must also give themselves blood tests every day, pricking their fingers repeatedly to see how much sugar is in their blood. But a new sensor from Sandia National Labs -- yes, the nuclear-weapons people -- makes the chore painless. A powerful infra-red light shines through the fingertip; careful analysis of the light as it emerges reveals the exact composition of the blood coursing through that finger, including the precise percentage of sugar. Sandia is seeking a corporate partner to market the device...
...sought-after appliance is aimed at the serious cook with serious money (list price: as much as $6,800). The most popular model is equipped with six porcelain-coated grates, a grill and two gas ovens (one with an infra-red broiler that reaches 1500 degrees F in 30 seconds). Going all out, it can simultaneously broil shrimp kabobs for an appetizer, warm the soup, roast the leg of lamb, grill swordfish, steam petits pois, simmer wild rice, saute baby tomatoes, poach pears and flambe crepes suzette...
...another stop, 200 miles farther along on the fast-food chain, a hopeful French tourist inquires, "Ou est la salade?" Cherie, you are in the land of American fried here. No salad, no apples, no milk. Just mysterious bundles from some hellish central kitchen, lying sodden beneath the infra-red lamps...
Mater notes that the notion of applying a Marshall Plan in a Third World context would be misguided. "Development aid is different from the Marshall Plan was because you don't have the infra-structure [already in place]. You can't go into Sierra Leone or Bangladesh and do that," he says...