| Mission managers could not guarantee that a piece of | | | | PM70, with a 4.3-inch screen and 30 gigabytes |
| the blanket wouldn't rip and slam into the spacecraft | | | | Compaq Presario 1700 Battery of storage, enough |
| during re-entry, but said the chances were slim. | | | | for 50 hours of video or 7,500 songs. |
| "You have a recruiter who can enable you to join the | | | | Had blanket repairs been necessary, the work would |
| service or not join the service. That has life-changing | | | | have come during a fourth spacewalk. It would have |
| implications for you as a high school student or college | | | | been the second time during Discovery's 13-day |
| student," she said. "If she does not do this her life will | | | | mission that astronauts were called on to repair their |
| be seriously impacted. Instead of getting training and an | | | | spacecraft's thermal protection shield. |
| education, she might end up a dishwasher." | | | | "They told us at recruiter school that girls, 15, 16, are |
| In a 2001 case, the U.S. Supreme Court found that | | | | going to come up to you, they're going to flirt with you, |
| federal agents had carried out an illegal search in | | | | they're going to do everything in their power to get you |
| violation of the Fourth Amendment when they used | | | | in bed. But if you do it you're breaking the law," he said. |
| thermal imaging equipment to spot marijuana grown | | | | The sheriff's helicopters are often involved in other |
| inside a private home. | | | | calls and unavailable for emergency use. Helicopters |
| Computers are not the only devices that use lithium ion | | | | also make so much noise that SWAT teams have |
| HP laptop batteries. Several other small portable | | | | been known to order them away because they |
| devices, such as cell phones, also use the technology. | | | | interfered with HP laptop batteries ground |
| They too have been part of recalls due to fire | | | | communications. |
| hazards. | | | | HP is promising its most comprehensive lineup of digital |
| Intel, on the other hand, has been focusing on | | | | entertainment products yet. For 2006, the computer |
| developing chips specifically tailored for notebooks. In | | | | and printer maker will unveil seven ultra-compact digital |
| 2003, it launched its Centrino notebook technology with | | | | cameras, ranging in price from $119 to $299. |
| a processor that boosted battery life by minimizing its | | | | CBS News Correspondent Peter King reports that |
| power demand without hurting performance much. | | | | NASA had worried some of that lightweight material |
| Apple premiered a new television ad Tuesday touting | | | | could shred and damage the orbiter. A different kind of |
| its new partner: "For years, it's been trapped inside | | | | debris hit Columbia two-and-a-half years ago, causing |
| PCs, dutifully performing dull tasks when it could have | | | | the spacecraft to break apart over Texas as it |
| been doing so much more. Starting today, the Intel chip | | | | headed to Florida. |
| will be set free and get to live inside a Mac. Imagine | | | | "All that is, you have to remind yourself, is that there's |
| the possibilities." | | | | jail bait, a quick way to get in trouble, a quick way to |
| LG will introduce its first portable media center, the | | | | dishonor the service," he said. |