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...going to be a major political force," says club president Stephen Moore, "we have to defeat one of the incumbent RINOs." And so they have trained their sights on Specter. The club has sent a $350,000 down payment on what it hopes will be $1 million to back conservative G.O.P. Congressman Pat Toomey, who is challenging the four-term Senator in Pennsylvania's Republican primary next April. Toomey, a club favorite who has called for tax cuts even larger than the ones President Bush proposed, is still a long shot. But the White House, which is backing Specter...
...these--radio-frequency identification, or RFID--is so old it's almost laughable. In World War II, the British used it to make sure incoming planes were theirs, not Germany's. Today new RFID applications are fueling a quiet business revolution that promises to speed up inventory and payment systems--and change our lives. Soon the family refrigerator may read the RFID tags of its contents, then alert you to fetch another carton of milk, toss an out-of-date product or cut back on cholesterol consumption. In Italy an appliance maker has designed a washer that can read RFID...
Radio-frequency identification is, in fact, already pervasive in our lives--used to track everything from pets to prisoners to products. Cars zip through tollbooths thanks to payment systems using RFID. More than 50 million pets worldwide are tagged with RFID chips. At least 20 million livestock have RFID tags to follow them for possible disease breakouts. A museum in Rotterdam uses RFID to guard its Rembrandts and Renoirs. And for the past two years, Oscar-goers have been screened and tracked by RFID...
...Auto-ID center at Keio University, says gadget-crazy Asians in Japan, South Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong are more likely to want household items with RFID chips that can communicate with a home network. The Chinese are more pragmatic. Shanghai and 44 other cities already use an RFID payment system for public transportation. In Singapore's library system, all 9 million books, videos and DVDs are embedded with antitheft chips, allowing self-checkout. "With bar codes, you need to precisely align the reader and the tag, but with RFID even old people and young children can use the system...
...rented white A-frame house, where he did little but tend to his cats, watch rented movies and, in the winter, help his neighbors shovel snow. His take-home pay was usually only a few hundred dollars a week, but the week he died, he made his last regular payment on a loan extended by a friend to help him buy the Geo Metro he drove. He played the lottery regularly and once collected a $250 payout, which he talked about for weeks. A co-worker, Robert Slayton, recalls that Wells' only vice seemed to be liquor...