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...matter how many times people test their water or how carefully they read the labels of food packages or how closely they scan the newspapers for reports of pesticide scares, they can never be 100% sure that what they eat and drink is 100% safe. Such a guarantee has never existed and never will. Nonetheless, the odds of surviving the daily chemical feast seem pretty good. If food and water were as dangerous as some people think, a lot more of us would be getting sick. U.S. food and water supplies have undeniable problems that need increased attention from...
...also the goal of Columbia University biochemist Charles Cantor, recently appointed by the Energy Department to head one of its two genome centers. "It's largely an engineering project," Cantor explains, intended to produce tools for faster, less expensive sequencing and to develop data bases and computer programs to scan the data. Not to be outdone, Japan has set up a consortium of four high- tech companies to establish an automated assembly line, complete with robots, that researchers hope will be capable of sequencing 100,000 base pairs a day within three years...
...therapy has reputedly helped children, including those with learning disabilities, improve their reading skills because it trains the eyes to work together and scan the printed page quickly. Anita Seibert of Northridge, Calif., says the training helped her sons Matthew, 10, and Brandon, 7, both of whom had been having trouble reading and concentrating. "We tried everything, ophthalmologists, counselors," she says. After six months of therapy, the boys started "getting A's," Seibert reports...
...conditioning can be programmed to go on in one room but not another. Sprinklers buried in the lawn start up automatically -- and know enough to shut themselves off when it rains. A robot sweeper cleans the surface of a swimming pool, while infrared beams and motion detectors scan the property, guarding McCovey's irreplaceable collection of batting trophies whether he is at home or away. "What I like about it," says McCovey, "is you can just set it and forget...
Dewitt set off to Copley Place to scan its high-priced stores...