Word: celling
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Even more ominous for the industry is the generation of information appliances touted as the next wave of microprocessor-loaded consumer goodies. What happens when you've got a Windows CE device running at 200 MHz in the palm of your hand and a cell phone with Internet access in your pocket? Not to mention Packard Bell NEC's planned microwave oven with a video-display terminal on the door so you can surf the Web while waiting for your burrito to thaw. E-mail? Web access? Game playing? Will anyone need a PC to perform what today seem like...
...voice mail more than once in five minutes; 3) I have checked both e-mail and voice mail while on vacation; 4) I have punched in numbers above 100 on the TV remote just to see if anything comes in; 5) I have spelled out "words" on my cell phone that can be read only upside down, as in 07734 for hello...
...closing years of this millennium, a quiet, unassuming British embryologist named Ian Wilmut set out to improve the productivity of farm animals and along the way set off a biological earthquake. The experiment he tenaciously pursued--to get a cell from an adult mammal to behave like a cell from a developing embryo--had long since been abandoned at the major centers of scientific research. Even high school biology students knew that once a mammalian cell had differentiated, and was programmed by nature to be bone or nerve or skin, it could not be deprogrammed...
...Wilmut did it. From a single mammary cell, taken from an adult ewe, he and his colleagues at the Roslin Institute cloned a sheep called Dolly and introduced her to a skeptical world in February...
Figuring out how the chemical operations essential for survival are carried out within every cell of living creatures (people included) is a task dominated by complexity. The Human Genome Project aims to specify the location and structure of all 100,000 or so genes in the human body. But that catalog, which will soon be completed, will be simply the springboard for understanding what all the genes do. Only when the network of their interactions with one another has been mapped will enduring benefits follow: in the surer design of drugs, in the growth of replacement organs, in the early...