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Politics : Formerly About Applied Materials
AMAT 261.90+0.4%Dec 26 9:30 AM EST

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To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (50929)8/21/2001 9:27:29 PM
From: Gottfried  Read Replies (2) of 70976
 
Brian, you'll love this. Implanting chips in tuna...

>Last week, a team led by Stanford biologist Barbara Block reported the results of the first study to follow these fish for years at a time, using a type of electronic tag that is revolutionizing wildlife biology.

It's essentially a miniature computer with two megabytes of memory. Surgically implanted in the fish's belly cavity, it takes note of the bluefin's position once a day and records water temperature, depth and other items every two minutes.
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From now on let's refuse to buy any other kind of tuna.<vbG>

Gottfried
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