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Some people worry, however, that pesticides used on grapes pose a health hazard. The Pesticide Data Program of the USDA, which tested 694 grape samples (both domestic and imported), found that 80 percent had one or more pesticides on them, said Kurt Davies, a pesticide policy analyst for the Environmental Working Group...
...mission statement, turning to capital letters to make their points hit home (e.g. "GRAPES ARE TASTY"). A typically fervent debate took over the U.C. e-mail list, and unknown pranksters circulated a bogus poster threatening to toss HDS dietitian Shirley Hung into a crossfire with political pundit and baseball analyst George Will...
From that came the VAIO, an Intel-produced, Sony-designed line of computers introduced last year that hasn't exactly wowed the digerati. Some analysts complain that Sony's PC offers too little value and is priced too high to compete with established makers like Gateway 2000 and Compaq. Sony contends that the VAIO is simply spearheading a long-term attempt to get a lucrative piece of the multimedia home computer market. For that, Sony has much to offer. "The next growth market is digital imaging for PCs," says the Tokyo analyst. "And connecting digital cameras and computers...
...databases are very important," says stock analyst John Rohs, managing director of Schroder & Co. "In a mature market you need a good database, basically to steal the customer from the guy next door. To steal him, you need to know a lot about him. What he plays, what he eats and so forth." Mirage Resorts is at work on a system at its Golden Nugget casino to allow hotel clerks instantaneous access to a client's gambling history to determine what sort of room or comps to offer...
Beyond the pseudo-Utopian predictions of far-reaching Internet usage lie the technical specifications of Dyson's treatise. A Harvard graduate with a degree in economics who subsequently worked as a reporter for Forbes magazine and followed high-tech stocks as a securities analyst on Wall Street, Dyson possesses an impressive amount of practical experience with which to substantiate her conceptions. One of the most innovative suggestions she makes concerns the mass mailings of junk e-mail sent through the Net. Her plan to curb this "spamming" involves the use of "sender-pays" e-mail, wherein the recipient would...