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...hyperactive Louisianian. As you chat online with other home cooks and download a recipe (with click-to-buy ingredients list, compiled in consultation with your e-frigerator), your TV points out that your host's handsome, copper saute pan is 25% off at Williams-Sonoma. Meanwhile, as the dish comes to a tantalizing simmer--at about 6:45 p.m., just when your family of four usually gets serious about ordering takeout--the TV suggests clicking to order etouffee (and nonspicy chicken fingers for the kids) from a local restaurant. It's a creepy intrusion, sure. But that etouffee looks mighty...
...said something the other night about "living specialization," and apparently it's the hot thing. The College wants to offer different models of suites for different students. The athlete, or at least the sports fan, can sign up for a large room with ratty couches, TV projector with satellite dish and built-in keg tap. The starving artist can inhabit a cubicle containing nothing but its own six black walls, with black and white postcards of jazz musicians to be tacked up later. The John Harvard Scholar, meanwhile, can pick a similar little cube, only entirely white inside, equipped with...
...when those giggly freshmen call you asking for money for their endowment fund, think of the 40% of the Indian population that is illiterate or the 25% of sub-Saharan Africans who have HIV. That's where my money will go--right after I buy a satellite dish to watch the Stanford basketball team. They're so damn good...
...that both walked into the room with set lines to deliver. Bush congratulated McCain on his tough campaign, saying it had made him a better candidate, and McCain praised Bush for so artfully returning to his "compassionate conservative" theme since locking up the nomination. Then came the thoroughly precooked dish. Bush brought up the vice presidency, and McCain quickly asked that he not be considered. End of subject. "He had his scripted lines," says McCain, "and I had mine...
...TISSUE ENGINEERS With man-made skin already on the market and artificial cartilage not far behind, 25 years from now scientists expect to be pulling a pancreas out of a Petri dish. Or trying, anyway. Researchers have successfully grown new intestines and bladders inside animals' abdominal cavities, and work has begun on building liver, heart and kidney tissue...