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...HEAR ME NOW? The Iridium 9595A satellite phone works with your SIM card virtually anywhere you want to go on the globe. It's the only mobile phone that gets a signal from pole to pole...
...game designers are ambitious enough to even contemplate a game in which you get to control the entire evolution of a species, from the bacterial level all the way up to the galactic. Then again, few game designers are as quietly ambitious as Will Wright, creator of Sim City and The Sims, the best-selling PC game of all time. Wright's evolution game, Spore, has been in the works for three years already (and has two more to go). It was inspired in part by his favorite movie, 2001: A Space Odyssey--which he saw growing up in Atlanta...
...Time, but told the magazine's Asia edition last year that his operation was "safe, doable and effective." The world's first clinical trial of patient-derived oegs on human spinal-cord injuries, whose first results are due to be published this year, is led by Professor Alan Mackay-Sim, of Queensland's Griffith University. He says too many questions about Huang's procedure - even questions as basic as exactly what cells are used - remain. "These are extremely vulnerable people, and he's doing procedures that have no real scientific justification." Dr. Ann Turnley, of the University of Melbourne...
...relaunch its tourism industry after the devastating tsunami of Dec. 26. The verifiable scientific knowledge on the effects of a rise in sea level is scanty. To the contrary, there is a school of thought that believes the sea-level rise doomsday scenario is a storm in a teacup. Sim I. Mohamed Secretary General Maldives Association of Tourism Industry Mal?, the Maldives...
...while political squabbles come and go like fashion, buildings tend to last an awfully long time. Accordingly, Summers is equally (if not more) dogmatic when it comes to the science-centric Allston expansion, his pet project and real-life Sim City. In February 2004, this editorial page hit the nail on the head, charging that “the [Allston] discussion between Mass. Hall and everyone else has indeed come to seem more and more like a monologue.” Faculty members have claimed repeatedly that they have not been kept au courant with the Allston initiative. Meanwhile, students...