Word: chipping
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...term for mail sent via old-school postal services. "We're all living in a speed-obsessed world," says Vicky Isley, which is why she co-created RealSnailMail.net Users submit e-mails that get relayed to a tank with some snails and two electronic readers. A gastropod with a chip on its shell wirelessly picks up a message from one reader and eventually moseys 50 cm to the other, at which point the missive dashes over the Internet. Delivery, if completed, could take days, weeks, months. The project officially launches in August and is part of Isley's work with...
...sequencing.) The services range from paternity and ancestry tests to risk assessments for specific diseases, such as breast cancer and Type 2 diabetes. Some tests look for single genes associated with disorders (baldness, in the case of HairDX); others, like 23andMe, one of the industry leaders, use a DNA chip to scan the entire genome in search of single nucleotide polymorphisms, or SNPs - genetic variants that help determine risk for disease or likely traits such as eye color...
...Malone's 70-ft. sailboat had snagged an underwater power line. While divers spent two hours cutting the boat free, Smith and Malone had little choice but to continue trying to unsnarl the deal. ''We were lucky we weren't electrocuted,'' says Smith, who carries a blue poker chip in his pocket to remind him to pay attention to blue-chip opportunities. ''But it gave us a chance to keep negotiating and to come up with some good ideas.'' Those notions led to a breathtaking combination that calls for Philadelphia- based Bell Atlantic to acquire Englewood, Colorado-based...
...reasons: as insurance against breakthroughs that the Soviets might come up with in their program and as a hedge against the remote possibility that someone, someday, really does discover a defensive technology that diminishes the advantage of offense. A serious, sustained research program is not a bargaining chip and should not be used as one. However, a research program that is driven by good science rather than high-pressure politics would not hold out false hopes for large-scale population defense; and yet it still could pave the way for a grand compromise by inducing the Soviets to agree...
...funding for SDI, the Administration will have to determine more precisely what role Star Wars will play in the strategic balance. Is it an umbrella against Armageddon, an expensive set of exotic gadgetry to protect missile silos or merely a Buck Rogers fantasy? Could it be the ultimate bargaining chip to exchange for deep reductions in threatening missiles or the catalyst for an arms race beyond the fears of reason? Long before the scientists begin to perfect SDI's technologies, policymakers must grapple with these questions. The answers are essential to the future of arms control, a stable nuclear balance...