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...also create unhealthy competition. Surgeons know that if they don't offer the latest techniques in the operating room, they risk losing a patient to others who will. Unless a procedure calls for a new piece of medical equipment and thus falls under FDA jurisdiction--like a new laser to correct nearsightedness that is currently awaiting the agency's approval--it can become widespread without ever being definitively proved to be safe or effective...
Arnold's people and hers are still haggling over a financial settlement ("It's close to being worked out," he says). There is a blurry smudge on his chest that was once the site of a Roseanne tattoo ("Two more laser treatments and this is gone"). Their marriage, he says, "was a learning experience for me. There were mistakes I made that I don't plan to make in my second marriage...
...real live voters of the thing Dole would most like them to ignore: if he were to win the presidency in 1996, he would be the oldest man ever inaugurated. Even if age doesn't matter, ideas do. At the very moment when voters have installed a generation of laser-guided, soul-driven Republican reformers, he finds himself cast as the embodiment of old-style, gear-grinding politics...
...atoms might be used to inscribe exquisitely small circuits onto the ultra-compact electronic chips. The atoms might also be put to work in ultra-precise atomic clocks. So far, the list of applications is not very long. But, says Oxford's Burnett, "it's like the beginnings of laser technology. It's a solution in search of a problem." Given the thousands of ways lasers are used today, that sounds pretty promising...
Gritz: As a former demolitions instructor and professional saboteur, I know there was a method involved in this bomb that no one has brought out. It's called reflective wave, and it's the difference between an incandescent bulb and a laser beam. That bomb was focused, using a method that only professionals know about. This methodology is within a limited number of minds within the military who train the cia, and this makes me think there is something besides Timothy McVeigh here...