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Some of the vendors selling these treats and treasures from yesteryear are grownups who cherish the same memories as their customers. Take the man behind the relaunch of Fizzies, the effervescent drink tablet licked, dissolved and chugged by a whole generation of children. Fred Wehling, 51, president of Amerilab Technologies, was one of those kids. He remembers it all: the 29˘ his grandma gave him every week, the walk to the grocery store, meditating over which flavor to pick, hearing the tablet hit the water and fizz. The product, sweetened with cyclamate, died when the chemical was banned...
...both recent transfers from Washington University in St. Louis.) The more grandfatherly of the two, Joshua R. Sanes, has handwriting that makes chicken scratch look like artistic calligraphy. This wouldn’t be a problem except for his insistence on writing lecture notes on the fly on his tablet PC, which he projects on the screen. For extra fun, ask Sanes to pronounce the name of "Rita Levi-Montalcini," a famous Italian neurobiologist. You won't be disappointed, believe us. Professor Jeffrey Lichtman, who has a somewhat strange fetish for powerful microscopes, is perhaps the better lecturer...
...whether women will change their diets sufficiently, see a need for pills and fortified foods. That raises the question of what scientists call bioavailability: How much of the mineral is in a form that the body can use? A cup of milk supplies 270 mg, while a 500-mg tablet of calcium carbonate provides just 200 mg. "The pharmaceutical industry is selling products on the basis of calcium content alone," says Dr. Robert Heaney of Omaha's Creighton University. "Sometimes that is sheer fraud...
...down--for the moment. Atwood, Canadian author of the Booker prizewinning The Blind Assassin, came up with the idea for a telerobotic writing device that permits an author to remotely inscribe books. The first public test of the LongPen, which can transmit a pen stroke written on an electronic tablet to a robotic pen-wielding arm, took place last week. Atwood, at a book fair in London, prepared to sign books across the Atlantic: in New York City and Guelph...
...national information. There?s a lot that goes into it and over the next year we?ll be talking about the milestones and rolling those things out. I just use it as an example. There are categories where we are all by ourselves, such as interactive TV, the tablet PC. Then there?s categories like teaching the phone to recognize your speech. There are other people doing phone things but we?re probably the most ambitious about the software. And then there are areas like search where at least today, people think of others before they think of the work...