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...SMEAR" FOR THE BREAST Since most breast tumors seem to originate in the milk ducts, why not just remove fluid from the ducts and check the cells for signs of abnormal growth? (That's basically the strategy doctors and other health-care providers use during a Pap smear to check the cervix for signs of abnormal growth before the cells become dangerous.) If there is a problem, so the theory goes, it could be traced to a particular duct, which would then be carefully monitored for signs of malignancy. One major drawback: seemingly abnormal results can be triggered by changes...
...Proctor: Friendly graduate student who dispenses milk, cookies and advice on a weekly basis...
Giving Kaku a run in the enthusiasm sweepstakes is Nicholas Negroponte, director of the M.I.T. Media Lab, who predicts a ubiquitous computing world sooner rather than later, a world in which refrigerators will know when your milk has gone bad and will order a fresh bottle. Novelist William Gibson, who coined the word cyberspace, even imagines a world in which your fridge (and your car and your toothbrush...) will be as smart...
...doesn't disappear down some college kid's hard drive. And that's where the lawyers come in. Suits against Napster and MP3.com - the latter of which settled with several of the Big Five record companies last week - are rearguard actions, meant to slow the music business' evolution and milk its aging business model for a few billion more. The music industry may yet squash Napster with legalities, or force it to join forces with the old guard, as it did with MP3. But if the lawyers are tolling for Napster, the evidence they present - of what the Internet...
...Dubbed the "Mealtime Messiah" who provided students with their every desire from festive meals to chocolate milk, Berry brought new life to HUDS for the first time in over 35 years...