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Candling, sometimes called coning, is today's, ahem, hottest natural treatment to remove wax from ears and, according to its proponents, relieve everything from migraines to sinusitis and postnasal drip while "promoting a healthy atmosphere," as one ad puts it. Massage therapists, beauty-salon operators and herbalists all offer the...
--MOLECULAR AND DOT COMPUTERS Other exotic designs include the molecular computer and the quantum dot computer (which replace the silicon transistor with a single molecule and a single electron, respectively). But these approaches face formidable technical problems, such as mass-producing atomic wires and insulators. No viable prototypes yet exist...
Maybe the collapse of Moore's law isn't such a bad thing after all. If none of these exotic designs pan out, our computers won't automatically increase in power every Christmas. But perhaps that's a small price to pay for our freedom.
In fact, the Del Webb version of the future sounds pretty nice, the kind of fantasy that most of us have imagined at one time or another, and that, if everything breaks exactly right, a few of us will certainly experience: fit, healthy and well off, we will enjoy all...
Sabra's baklava kept me going at lunch. The two brothers there may have drooled over my exotic friends, but we had an understanding about the flaky, honey-soaked pastry. We'd bounce back the words. "One piece of baklava," I'd say, hiding my "w" behind a "v." I...