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...that's about to change. With the mapping of the genome--the twisted double strand of DNA that carries the instructions for making every cell in the human body--the process by which new drugs are developed is being turned upside down. Trial and error, which is how medicines have been discovered for the past 100 years (and for millenniums before that), is yielding to drugs by design. Increasingly scientists, armed with blueprints for our genes, can identify the individual molecules that make us susceptible to a particular disease. With that information--and some high-speed silicon-age machinery--they...
...Florida judge mulled over a marathon's worth of arguments about Vice President Al Gore '69's challenge to the state's certified election results, the U.S. Supreme Court continued to deliberate its own strand of election litigation...
...Many of these are connected, in chaotic ways. Moynihan focused on one dramatic strand of an overall pattern...
Moreover, bandwidth demand may not rise fast enough to meet the rapidly growing supply. According to Corning's manager for optical switches, David Charlton, in a few years a single strand of fiber will be able to handle all the voice traffic in the U.S. Sure, all sorts of new services will be available over the Web, and wireless appliances will be coming online that have to funnel through a land-based optical-fiber network at some point. But what if all this happens in five to seven years instead of two to three? Can somebody say B2B shakeout...
...Internet will undergo substantial alteration as optical technologies allow the transmission of many trillions of bits per second on each strand of the Internet's fiber-optic backbone network. The core of the network will remain optical, and the edges will use a mix of access technologies, ranging from radio and infrared to optical fiber and the old twisted-pair copper telephone lines. By then, the Internet will have been extended, by means of an interplanetary Internet backbone, to operate in outer space...