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...dime-size wafer, not expected before 2025, would store micronutrients in hundreds of mini-reservoirs. After the wafer is swallowed, built-in sensors would respond to various chemicals, acids and proteins in the G.I.'s gut signaling hunger. A resulting small electrical charge would dissolve a thin gold cap on a reservoir, releasing the needed nutrients...
...politician, especially in a room full of his peers, wouldn't roll with the punches? What struck me is how much he seemed to genuinely enjoy the joke. Whenever I ran into him, he always brought it up. He could have been merely courting a TIME reporter, but my gut told me that he had (A) a genuine sense of humor, (B) secure enough feelings about his Judaism and the place of Jews in the world that he could laugh about it and (C) a healthy lack of pomposity...
...have made so little headway in the many exercise regimens I have attempted in my calorie-packed life. I have a bad attitude. This is why my butt is racing my gut for the floor...
...sense, a personal gut feeling, that people are nostalgic and hate to lose the word college and alumnae even though it makes sense," RCAA Executive Director Judith Stanton says. "They are not violently opposed, but rather nostalgically opposed...
FANTASTIC VOYAGE Looking inside the intestine to diagnose, say, colon cancer isn't easy. But now, as if in a sci-fi flick, doctors have developed a tiny camera in a capsule that patients swallow and send on a painless info-gathering voyage through the gut. As contractions move it along, the mini-endoscope transmits detailed color images to a belt worn by the patient; then they're downloaded to a computer. Downside? Doctors can't maneuver the capsule to get a closer look. And FDA approval isn't expected for years...