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...alerts you to incoming calls and lets you store and delete messages. I tried the service several times, and it worked fine except for one problem: I couldn't talk to anybody unless I logged off and dialed them back. It's fun to screen calls, but my friends report that the shameless self-promotion in Callwave's voice-mail greeting gets tired really fast...
Your articles on what awaits us in the next century were incredible and full of useful information [SPECIAL REPORT, Nov. 8]. Although we may live longer, resist baldness, cure innumerable diseases, grow and transplant brains, choose to be obese, eat less meat, reduce waste and not need to have sex to have babies, let's not forget to play. Play is essential for maintaining well-being. This will be especially true if we live longer and healthier lives. We'll need to lighten up and not be self-congratulatory in old age. MARC BEKOFF Professor of Biology University of Colorado...
...story "Will We Run Out Of Gas?" [SPECIAL REPORT, Nov. 8], Mark Hertsgaard presented an encouraging future for our prospects of driving more environmentally friendly automobiles. Hybrid gasoline-electric cars with impressive fuel efficiency are already on our doorstep, and his prediction that hydrogen-powered fuel-cell cars will be in showrooms by 2004 is even more exciting. It is true that their only exhaust is water vapor. However, Hertsgaard seems reluctant to spoil the party by telling us where the hydrogen comes from. It is certainly not out there floating around in large amounts free for the asking. Fuel...
...public-health community must find a way to pry apart the beauty and disease-control facets of the obesity debate, as raised in the article "Will We Keep Getting Fatter?" [SPECIAL REPORT, Nov. 8]. Actress Camryn Manheim is overweight and lovely. So is my wife. No one wants a nation of size-8 robots. I'd settle for an effective battle against extreme obesity (starting in infancy) and getting everyone into exercising more. That should improve health without terrorizing the merely plump or pinning our hopes on a magic pill. CHRIS FOREMAN Takoma Park...
...Ayres' enlightening article "Will We Still Eat Meat?" [SPECIAL REPORT, Nov. 8], which envisions widespread vegetarianism in the imminent future, is compelling. The consumption of meat, poultry and fish has resulted in dire environmental and health ramifications for all. Vegetarianism is ideal for human dietary fortification, animal liberation and ecological conservation. Our imperiled planet will be the ultimate beneficiary of a humane, meatless diet. BRIEN COMERFORD Glenview...