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...phone companies face growing competition, though, from products like the $30 Phone Butler, sold by Morgan-Francis Inc., based in Fort Myers, Fla., which performs a function similar to that of the Privacy Manager. A more aggressive approach is touted by Privacy Technologies, based in Glenwillow, Ohio, which developed the TeleZapper. A small black box that connects to any phone, the $40 TeleZapper greets each incoming call with shrill tones that resemble the sound of a disconnected phone. When automatic dialers detect this sound, they often interpret it to mean the number is disconnected and hang up. A downside...
Last week, as U.S. officials were finalizing their blueprint for how Iraq's postwar oil industry will function, oil producers were jostling to protect hard - won market share in advance of a resumption of exports from Iraq. OPEC nations, in a meeting in Vienna, agreed to a slight drop in output to try to support prices in the short term, although the cartel also announced an increase in official production targets. And in Russia, the world's second - largest oil exporter, the energy industry received a boost when companies Yukos and Sibneft said they had agreed in principle...
...final draft of the human genome was announced this month. But the function of most of the raw sequence—a string of the nucleotide bases A,C, T and G—is still mysterious...
Researchers have long known how to find the function of specific genes, which is akin to knowing the dictionary definition of a word. Finding all of the words, and figuring out how they fit together is the goal of the network approach to biology...
...total, I spent $15.68 to function over this typical caffeine craving day. I’m broke, I have coffee jitters, my teeth will almost certainly need BriteSmile work before graduation—but at least I stayed awake...