As the holiday season quickly approaches, many of us will be going the easy route and purchasing gift cards for our loved ones, friends, colleagues and neighbors. After all, who doesn’t love receiving a gift card? They are given out in lieu of Christmas bonuses at corporations, they are given out as a reward for […]

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Implanted electronic computer chips have faced great success in their various uses. Lost dogs have been found and reunited with their anxious owners, sometimes within days or even hours. They have been used in the cattle industry to identify individual cows and to ensure stray cattle do not get stolen by thieves. These electronic chips […]

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Parents are used to receiving letters sent home from school announcing upcoming fundraisers or field trips to the local aquarium, but no parents of students at Normandy High School in St. Louis were prepared for the alarming letter they received on October 13, 2008. In it, the school administrators stated that epidemiologists working for the […]

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