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...feeling eerily close. Standards for room-to-room PC networking and the conversant appliance continue to creep toward the mainstream (and each other). Madison Avenue's trumpets blare for bold (and still overpriced) idiot-box breakthroughs like high-definition television (HDTV) and $15,000 gas-plasma sets that cling to the wall like framed art. Still, 1998 was a year for improvements...
...scientist, a meteoroid as small as a dust particle could blast a hole nearly half an inch across in a solar panel or a layer of insulation. Equally threatening is the intense heat of impact, which would instantly vaporize the meteoroid and convert it to an ionized gas, or plasma, that would shock the spacecraft with an electrostatic charge. "If that charge got into some of your data circuitry," Riegler says, "it could wipe out data...
...recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas was full of new TVs in all shapes and sizes, but the most tempting were the slim-screen plasma displays. Made by Fujitsu, left, and Philips, the 42-inchers offer twice the sharpness of today's sets--perfect for movies in the new DVD format...
...article titled "Plasma Organochlorine Levels and the Risk of Breast Cancer," is the largest study in this field to date...
Hunter said that the data of two other large studies--one conducted in North California with 150 cases and the other in Europe--both agreed with his conclusion that there is no correlation between plasma chemical level and the risk of breast cancer...