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...BRITAIN Country Living A government advisory group said foot-and-mouth disease will cost Britain's economy more than $6 billion this year and threatens "the entire fabric of rural life." The report by the Countryside Agency came as the army was called in to help contain more than a dozen new cases in a part of northeast England that had been free of the disease for three months. The government dismissed new calls for a pilot vaccination program...
Langer also changed forever the way the materials used in these systems are designed. Researchers in the past had relied on off-the-shelf materials for medical applications. (The fabric in the first artificial heart, for example, was the same polyether urethane used in women's girdles.) Langer reversed the search process; in his lab, researchers first determine the exact physiological requirements of a system and then design a polymer to meet those specs...
STYLE FILE Belt clips aren't the only way for geeks to carry their gear. The Scott eVest ($160), made of a water-repellent, cotton-blend fabric, conceals a dozen pockets that are designed for everything from laptops to PDAs. Velcro tabs along the edges hold wires in place, and an opening near the neckline keeps your cell phone's earpiece handy. The eVest comes in black and khaki. A version for women...
...result of all this is a community imprinted with a paisley pattern of psychedelia, a social fabric tie-dyed with a new rebelliousness and swirled with a growing sense of social malaise. "Some kids like to come up to my office to chat," says Muneo Ogishi, owner of the Elephant's Egg, a chain of Tokyo head shops that sells magic mushrooms. "They say they're using the drugs to try and meditate." It seems Japanese youth are looking for something, although it is still unclear exactly what. It is certainly not the social consciousness that drove the original hippy...
...thing; overdoing them is another. Amid all their taking of pains, Yorkin and Lear rarely forget the importance of not being earnest. Their shows are, after all, only situation comedies. The scripts, however inventive, tend more toward formula than organic form. The characterizations are still exaggerated cutouts from the fabric of real life...