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...digitized the way sight and sound have been. The basics of what makes a smell can be captured molecularly and expressed digitally on a chip at a reasonable price. Companies like DigiScents of Oakland, Calif., and Ambryx of La Jolla, Calif., have already developed digital odors. Cyrano Sciences of Pasadena, Calif., is developing medical-diagnostics technology that can "smell" diseases...
George Taylor of Pasadena, Texas, brought up a more interesting point. He wrote, "American slavery started in 1619. Probably 100 times more people were enslaved under the American flag than were enslaved under the Confederate flag." This is true. There were slaves in the Union at the time of the Civil War. In fact, the Emancipation Proclamation deliberately freed only southern slaves, not northern ones...
DIED. MACK ROBINSON, 85, silver medalist who finished a step behind Jesse Owens in the 1936 Olympics 200 m, but whose success was overshadowed by his brother, baseball legend Jackie; in Pasadena, Calif...
...beginning to live up to their moniker. Today e-noses are being tested for everything from disease detection to disaster prevention, and lower-priced models are starting to come on the market--including an $8,000 device called the Cyranose 320 being introduced this week by Cyrano Sciences of Pasadena, Calif...
...Internet's most successful and best-known incubators tend to be American. CMGI Inc. of Andover, Mass., Guy Kawasaki's Garage.com in Palo Alto, Calif., and Bill Gross's Idealab.com in Pasadena, Calif., have fostered more than 150 Net start-ups in all, hitting pay dirt when their young charges go public. CMGI, which has partnered in Asia with Hong Kong businessman Richard Li's Pacific Century group, has been called the Berkshire Hathaway of the Internet. CMGI currently boasts a market capitalization of about $26 billion...