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...midday, I know the proper way to clean up a blood spill. (With bleach.) I know the remedies for both conscious and unconscious choking, and how to self-administer the Heimlich maneuver (by leaning over the back of a chair). I know how to apply CPR. After a morning of vivid reminders of my mortality, the lunch break becomes an exercise in dread. For example, do I want to spend what may be the final hour of my life munching a Cobb salad and reading a book by Al Franken? I look down at my lunch and think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Give Me the Paddles and — Clear! | 9/5/2000 | See Source »

...talking about their favorite subject: themselves! The assembled press purred like kittens at a milk-truck spill at the Wednesday Q&A session on Wolf's forthcoming NBC drama, "Deadline." The drama stars Oliver Platt as a headstrong New York tabloid columnist who solves crimes with an intrepid group of journalism students. Never mind that we've seen nothing of the show except a couple-minutes-long trailer, or that it sounds like one of the more implausible premises for week-in, week-out crime-solving since "Scooby Doo." The fourth estate was much more interested in hearing which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yes, Dick. No, Dick. Three Rags Full, Dick... | 7/20/2000 | See Source »

ENVIRONMENTAL CLEANUP Specialized nanobots dumped into an oil spill, a toxic-waste site or even a polluted stream could seek out and find dangerous molecules, remove them or change their chemical structure one by one to render them harmless--or even beneficial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Is Nanotechnology? | 6/19/2000 | See Source »

...coming years, high tech will increasingly look low tech as we solve problems by turning to biology and microscopic particles where we once turned to engineering and information technologies. Today a rig churning and cranking to sop up an oil spill mars an ocean landscape; tomorrow genetically engineered micro-organisms will be sent into the ocean to clean up an oil spill invisibly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Low Tech Replace High Tech? | 6/19/2000 | See Source »

...didn't spill a goddamned thing!" Jake shouts, as he stuffs the last chunk of tomato into his mouth and high-fives Cabral...

Author: By Victoria C. Hallett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Room by Room: The Story of One Entryway | 6/8/2000 | See Source »

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