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...sense, the news last week that scientists have created a "roborat" represents an ingenious technical breakthrough. Engineers have tried for years--without success--to build robots smart enough to cross even a railroad track. Now, by combining off-the-shelf technology with a creature whose maneuvering skills have been honed by millions of years of evolution, physiologists at the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn have created remotely piloted rodents that navigate complex terrain at the will of controllers who are more than 500 yards away. Wearing tiny backpacks equipped with radio transmitters and miniature...
...shoes? The cynical response is that increased costs and our hardwired fashion instinct will prevent us wearing the same shoes too long, but the authors lead by example: Cradle to Cradle is printed with non-toxic ink on material made from waterproof resins. When you run out of shelf space, you can feed it to the flowers...
...stroll through the library’s stacks just outside her open door reveal books ranging from feminism to motherhood to widowhood. Here, like in most libraries, the Dewey Decimal system reigns supreme. Jewish women and Muslim women share a shelf in the section marked 296 to 297. Aviatrixes reside in 629.1, with an entire section devoted to books about Amelia Earhart. Just across the aisle, lesbians occupy the 306.76 section...
...panic I sometimes feel at my limited procreative shelf life often gives way to anger that I cannot control my ability to bear a child. Some of us are so adept at multitasking, we have come to believe that having children is a biological right. For those women who want children, the failure to have them not only teaches a sobering lesson in the limitations of science, it also provides a discomfiting look at one's own mortality. PAMELA MATHIASEN Los Angeles...
UNITED STATES Continental Shelf E.U. leaders smoothed over their differences with the U.S. on trade issues, the Middle East and Iraq at a summit meeting that most observers described as "disappointing." Trade delegations met for a second day to address the most contentious issue between them - U.S. tariffs on steel imports - but officials said more success was achieved in the area of foreign policy. U.S. President George W. Bush said "important progress" had been made on the Middle East. "The United States and the E.U. share a common vision of two states, Palestine and Israel, living side by side...