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Skeptics of such products say these claims are about as credible as a slicer-dicer infomercial. But others point to video-game research that suggests digital diversions have many advantages over similar analog training tools. "Video games are very integrative in nature. You have to multitask a lot," says Chandramallika Basak, a cognitive psychologist at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. In the PC-based game Rise of Nations, on which Basak published a paper last year in Psychology and Aging, multitasking involves managing an empire with multiple cities and simultaneously defending one locale from attack while reviving...
...love at first search. Unlike popular favorites Yahoo, Excite and Lycos, which have morphed into monstrous slicer-dicer portals offering everything from daily horoscopes to free e-mail, Google does only one thing--search--and does it spectacularly. Whether I'm looking for a home remedy for sinusitis or trying to find a long-lost friend online, it has an uncanny knack for locating what I want...
...eccentric little ($60 million) film about one mild man reaching the end of his world... The only weapon flaunted [here] is a dicer-peeler-grater...
Instead of assigning various segments of the genome to hundreds of scientists, as the Genome Project does, Venter plans to use what he calls whole-genome shotgunning. Essentially, he will put the entire genome in a dicer that will chop it into millions of segments. These chunks will be fed into 230 newly developed Perkins-Elmer robotic machines that will identify and sequence the DNA code letters in each segment. The company claims that they are 10 times more efficient than current sequencing machines and allow human operators to input in 15 minutes what used to take 24 hours...
...This could be a spiffy updating of TV's first great Springfield--the setting for that archetypal '50s idyll Father Knows Best--rather than the wildly twisted suburbia of Homer Simpson or the Armageddon-arsenal Springfield of Kip Kinkel. The only weapon flaunted in The Truman Show is a dicer-peeler-grater...