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Lots of us will work in our houses or apartments [1], telecommuting with our computers. Others will make a short hop to a nearby office park [2]. Those who have to go downtown will prefer swift mass transit [3]. Cars and trucks [4] will still be used, but they will...
FOOD We'll favor fruits, grains and vegetables grown close to home, either in our backyard gardens [6] or on nearby organic farms [7]. It won't take much energy to get the fresh produce to local markets. Since the farms will employ natural forms of pest control rather than...
By January 2000, the AIDS epidemic will have claimed 15 million lives and left 40 million people living with a viral infection that slowly but relentlessly erodes the immune system. Accounting for more than 3 million deaths in the past year alone, the AIDS virus has become the deadliest microbe...
Fortunately, the AIDS story has not been all gloom and doom. Less than two years after AIDS was recognized, the guilty agent--human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV--was identified. We now know more about HIV than about any other virus, and 14 AIDS drugs have been developed and licensed in...
It's funny: I can engage in all sorts of fun, perilous activities like riding my motorcycle in Manhattan, catching ultraviolet rays in California or playing racquetball without goggles, and no one admonishes me "for my own good." But I order one slice of tiramisu and it triggers all kinds...