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- From: prmader@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (MICHELLE MADER)
- Subject: Re: Leaving kids alone
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- Date: 25 Jan 1993 13:21 EST
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- In article <1jq1egINNjli@gap.caltech.edu>, peri@cco.caltech.edu (Michal Leah Peri) writes...
- >This is a bit off the subject. I apologise.
- >
- >A friend mentioned to me that she read of a device that can be
- >put into fillings in a child's teeth that has a small transmitter.
- >If the kid is ever kidnapped the police would be able to use the
- >transmitter to track him/her down. Has anybody heard of such a
- >thing?
- >
- >I am not at all convinced that such a device would be a good idea.
- >What do you all think?
- >
- >--
- >
- > -- Michal
- >----------------------------------------------------------------------
- >Impressive amounts of material can be accreted in this manner.
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- I'm not sure about a transmitter but I did here of a kind of
- microchip that could be put onto a child's molar which would have
- pertinent identification and medical info. on it.
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