A bar code that barks

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Tiny Antennas to Keep Tabs on U.S. Drugs
By GARDINER HARRIS
The F.D.A. is expected to announce an agreement to put tiny radio antennas on the labels of medicine bottles to combat fraud.

QUOTATION OF THE DAY

"It's basically a bar code that barks."
ROBIN KOH, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, on a system to track wholesale drugs.