If it performs as advertised, the Nomad should remove some guesswork from the complicated process of perfecting a shot of espresso.

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This process needs a swift shot in the arm if we are to make sure that some of the dazzling gains of modern medicine are not squandered by our own complacency, and that deadly throat infections remain largely a memory of the past.

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"The traditional mug shot is a process (or space) where a person is automatically marked as a criminal (although not yet convicted), it is combative, accusing, dehumanizing, " says Wicks.

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