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...BURN Fires clean out the forest; let them do their job. With more people than ever living in fire-prone areas, however, that's a tough sell...
DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPONS Imagine a cross between a microwave oven and a Star Trek phaser: a tight, focused beam of energy that flash-heats its target from a distance. Directed energy beams do not burn flesh, but they do create an unbearably painful burning sensation. The Air Force Research Laboratory has already spent $40 million on a humvee-mounted directed-energy weapon. Expect to see it in the field...
...graduate student in cell biology, Naughton was certain she would never work in industry and would never have children. Wrong and wrong again. In 1987 Naughton co-founded Advanced Tissue Sciences, where she developed the first temporary skin substitute based on human tissue, which has aided burn victims in North America, Europe and Africa. The Brooklyn, N.Y.-born scientist, now 46 and the mother of three, is once again breaking ground. She became the first woman biotech entrepreneur to lead a major U.S. business school when the one at San Diego State named her its dean...
...with easy-to-manufacture microchips. Products such as drugs take decades to pass through strict government reviews. Europeans refuse to eat genetically engineered food. Biotechnology is less of a Silicon Valley-style gold rush than a minefield where only the truly exceptional companies can turn a profit before they burn through all their capital...
...stories told by now elderly survivors who occasionally come to the museum to share their memories with visitors. One notable local figure is Sumiteru Taniguchi, whose photograph, snapped by the U.S. Army, became symbolic of nuclear disaster. The picture shows Taniguchi at 16, lying on his stomach in a burn shelter, the skin singed off his arms, back and buttocks. His grandfather treated his burns with cooking oil for two years before Taniguchi was able to resume his job as a mail carrier. The museum also has video testimonies from other victims, among them an American woman whose sister...