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...Venter's work is certainly exciting, but it is not the creation of life. It is the creation of a component of life. The genome does nothing unless it is inserted into a living cell. Richard Robertson, San Diego...
That's the obvious stuff. Now for the subtle stuff. As Google and Microsoft get more competitive over ads, you'll see new kinds of ads, and in new places, like on your cell phone. Your traffic will become more valuable, and you'll see, if you look carefully, underhanded ploys to secure it. Microsoft has pinned a lot of its hopes for future growth on this business. The risk with a huge, diversified entity like the merged Microsoft-Yahoo! is that it would get up to dirty tricks like diverting Web surfers to its own pages rather than...
Down on the trading floor, eight hands suddenly reach for the whiteboard to trade shares of the al-Basra Bank, and then a moment later pull back. A female trader has just walked along the front of the room in elegant black boots and gold necklaces, chatting into her cell phone, pausing momentarily to scribble numbers in black marker on the wall...
...mostly a mystery. It's possible that increased levels of the stress hormone cortisol interfere directly with fetal development. Or it may be that the mother's stress response triggers a cascade of other chemical changes - in her immune system, in blood levels of sex hormones, or perhaps in cell-signaling proteins called cytokines - that may indirectly affect early fetal development. Whatever the exact mechanism, its effects lend credence to the theory that starting early in pregnancy, "mothers transmit information to their fetus about what condition they're likely to be born into - whether they're going to be thrifty...
...typically show up in the databases purchased by campaigns: rolls of past voters, lists of homeowners and membership files of special-interest groups. They aren't regular watchers of TV news or subscribers to newspapers. But kids can now catch candidate speeches and debate snippets on YouTube. Their cell-phone numbers and e-mail addresses follow them everywhere. Technology makes it easier for them to volunteer too: students who might never show up at a phone bank can now download contacts from a central database and make calls from the comfort of their dorm rooms. Loosely connected to traditional networks...