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FACE THE MUSIC Ever wanted to really sock it to Christina Aguilera? Now you can, courtesy of a new high-tech toy from Hasbro called M.A.G.S. ($19.99), which stands for Music Activated Gaming System. Plug M.A.G.S. into a CD player, or anything else that plays music, and it converts the sound waves into a graphics display, which you can shoot to earn points. Extra bonus for nailing Kenny...
...wired home doesn't really exist. Not yet anyway. There are "smart" houses, to be sure, equipped with sensors that can tell when people are inside and can be programmed to adjust heat and lighting accordingly. There are also Internet-ready homes with network cabling, where you can simply plug in your computer in any room and be online. But these only tantalize us with hints of what technology...
...reality, in 2001, is that my high-school freshman sister has a cell phone and that I occasionally plug Kevin's name into a Google search field. And that cell phone carriers in the U.S. are scrambling to meet the fall deadline to start rolling out location-pinpointing services that, by law, will have to be reliable enough to track all their cell-phone subscribers at least 66% of the time. The only people who will have die-hard access to this information are the folks who answer emergency calls to 911. They're the folks who lobbied...
...Diego, Calif., hit just such a line-drive single with Rituxan, the first drug that successfully targeted proteins on cancer cells. Scientists had learned over the years that cancer cells are studded with an unusually large number of receptacles that compounds essential for survival, including growth factors, can plug into and fuel the cells' growth. Rituxan is a monoclonal antibody, a molecule specifically engineered to fit into the receptacles on non-Hodgkin's lymphoma cells and, in this case, single out the cancer cell for destruction by the immune system. Back in the early 1980s, monoclonal antibodies were hyped...
...appropriate target exists. Herceptin, for example, latches onto a receptor known as HER2, which is abnormally abundant in only about 30% of breast-cancer tumors. A biopsy can tell doctors whether a patient is likely to respond to Herceptin, but they'd hoped to find a molecule that would plug into a growth-factor receptor more prevalent in cancer cells...