Word: blackly
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FRONT-SEAT DRIVER For the past 14 months, Progressive, the country's fifth-largest auto insurer, has been testing an optional pay-as-you-go system in Texas, using black boxes to track drivers' activity, including when and where they are going, via satellite. Monthly invoices are based on actual usage--the less you drive, the less you pay--and so far, Houston drivers have saved an average of 25% on their premiums. Progressive plans to launch the program in other states in the near future. Privacy advocates are concerned that despite safeguards, the information could by used against...
...overcome these problems, figuring out ways to heal damaged cords and switch the power back on in spines long since gone dead. Even if Reeve and others don't walk by 2002, there is no limit to what may happen in the decades that follow. Says clinical neurologist Ira Black of the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in Piscataway, N.J.: "There's been a revolution in our view of the spinal cord and its potential for recovery...
...question now is not what the treatments for an injured spine should be, but how best to implement them. At hospitals such as the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and the University of Florida, human trials are already getting under way. Studies at other hospitals are sure to follow. Says Black: "The astounding progress over the past decade dwarfs the progress of the past 5,000 years." Reeve may not stand up the day he turns 50, but the real possibility does exist that he will spend a future birthday on his feet...
...discovering" the human species, while in hospitals and in jungle clinics exceedingly powerful mutant bacteria are emerging that can't be treated with antibiotics. In the past decade, at least 50 new viruses have appeared, including Ebola Ivory Coast, Andes virus, hepatitis G, Fakeeh, Pirital, Whitewater Arroyo, Hendra virus, Black Lagoon virus, Nipah and Oscar virus. This summer West Nile virus showed up for the first time in the western hemisphere, when it was discovered in New York City...
...weapons. The 20th century saw the creation of great weapons based on the principles of nuclear physics; the 21st century will see great weapons based on the knowledge of DNA and the genetic code. During the 1980s, the Soviet Union used rudimentary genetic engineering to create incurable strains of Black Death (bubonic plague) that were resistant to drugs. This biotech Black Death was loaded into missile warheads aimed at the U.S. As biotechnology becomes more supple and powerful and as the genetic code of more organisms is unraveled, biologists will learn how to mix genes of different bugs to create...