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DOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT CARbon fiber is? Modulus graphite? Boron? They used to put boron into gasoline, or at least into gasoline ads. Now it goes into wildly technological golf clubs and tennis racquets. Or is that argon? Or titanium? Neither of which is to be confused with something called Kevlar -- the stuff they make bullet-proof vests from. Kevlar these days is a very hot item. There are bulletproof Kevlar canoes, for example. And water skis. And bicycle tights. (A lie: the Kevlar bike tights, for the moment, are imaginary. But remember, you saw them here first.) The rest...
Constructed of epoxy and graphite-fiber composites and crammed with advanced electronics, the DC-X was designed to take advantage of a burst of technological progress -- and it shows. Thanks to a skin as thin as a credit card, which replaces the heavy aluminum shell of conventional spacecraft, the rocket is light enough to leap into orbit in a single bound, avoiding the wasteful shedding of expensive booster stages. The DC-X is the world's first fully reusable spacecraft, and its myriad computer systems make it easy to launch and repair. It can be fired off by a crew...
Hawkes and Carbone said the new system, based on the University's fiber optic network, will have more readily available information about disabled students who live in a building where there is a fire. A new system would also be capable of "automatic retransmission," sending the alarm through the control center straight to a fire department...
...most promising of the new therapies, first available in Italy, is a product called Actisite. It looks something like dental floss but actually consists of an organic fiber coated with the antibiotic tetracycline. Packed deep in the gums, the medicinal thread remains in place for seven to 10 days. Thanks to a time-release formula, the antibiotic slowly diffuses through the infected area, attacking the gum-destroying germs. According to one study, Actisite delivers 300 times as much tetracycline to the crevice where the thread is placed as a gram's worth of pills would...
...send messages to his office while he's out on a sales call using his AT&T hand-held computer." AT&T also intends to be a main source for the ; pocket phones, portable computers and other devices that tap into the network, as well as the optical-fiber wires and telephone switches needed to build networks...