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...Mavica line of digital cameras. The Mavica MVC-CD1000 ($1,300, available in August) comes with a built-in CD-ROM burner, so when you snap a picture, you don't have to download it to your PC. Instead, the camera writes the image straight to a disc. No fuss, no muss...
...Potter" Promotes Reading as Pure Pleasure: Quite often, the New York Times' bestseller list seems to be more about I'm-smarter-than-you yuppie consumerism than about the books that people really read. I don't know anyone who finished "Infinite Jest." And do you remember the fuss over Stephen Hawking's "A Brief History of Time" (a bestselling dust-collector if there ever was one)? And who read Seamus Heaney's new translation of "Beowulf" other than this year's Whitbread Prize judges? "Harry Potter," on the other hand, will be read over and over and passed from...
Given this seemingly overwhelming ignorance, why is everyone making such a fuss? Because laying out the biochemical code for all our genes, however many there turn out to be, and locating them within the 23 chromosomes in the human genome may turn out to be the necessary first step to solving all these mysteries. The hope is that the completed genome will enable scientists to lay bare the genetic triggers for hundreds of diseases--from Alzheimer's to diabetes to heart disease--and to devise exquisitely sensitive diagnostic tests. It will help pharmaceutical companies create drugs tailored to a patient...
...FUSS FUND RAISING...
...Never mind that Sensation had been shown two years ago in England to no controversy and that this kind of discourse on the First Amendment should have been resolved before the turn of the last century. The main source of the fuss is that "Sanitation" displays the quotations from Giuliani and company in Gothic Fraktur font, a typeface often associated with the Nazis. The mayor has therefore accused Haacke of portraying him as a Nazi and concurrently trivializing the Holocaust. Objectively, Gothic Fraktur is more of a nationalistic font than a Nazi one. It is based on medieval German designs...