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...cotton swab into the mouth of her infant son, collecting a small sample of mucus from inside his cheek. In the back room of his office, he inserts the sample into a machine, which extracts DNA from the mucus cells and compares it with the genetic material on a dime-size chip. Minutes later, a computer printer begins to spit out a list of the infant's genes. Fortunately, all but a few of the genes are labeled "normal." It is those few that the doctor discusses as he explains the results to the mother. "Your son's genetic inheritance...
...enjoys a $3.5 billion market capitalization despite sales of just $80 million in 1995. Bill Gates saw the light last winter, famously stating that Microsoft was "hardcore about the Internet," and, to prove it, turning the $75 billion company, and its $8.7 billion of annual sales, around on a dime...
...great Web page." The Geek Site of the Day picked it up too, followed by those arbiters of cool, Suck. Soon, thousands of people a week started to swing by. While it's great to get the hits, the man who would be Walter doesn't make a dime. So he's writing an expose of the Web that might be profitable--if only he had a publisher...
Roll over, Alexis de Tocqueville. The oft mentioned (but less frequently read) 19th century French scribe is being invoked by every dime-store scholar and public figure these days to bemoan the passing of what the Frenchman described as one of America's distinctive virtues: civic participation. "Americans of all ages, all conditions and all dispositions," he famously wrote, "constantly form associations." In France, Tocqueville observed, a social movement is instigated by the government, in England by the nobility, but in America by an association. Tocqueville and small d democrats from Ben Franklin (who started a volunteer fire brigade...
...expect to see Clinton expanding his new tack of governing-by-fiat, since it casts him as the activist President working hard for middle-class folks. Take the speech last month when he asked television networks for three hours of educational programming each week. Didn't cost him a dime to get up before a crowd and propose it, but the idea won him points with parents, McAllister says. "Who can disagree with it?" says McAllister. "He's figured out the value of the bully pulpit. Given Clinton's lead in the polls, people seem to be responding well...