Word: testes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...enigmatic message YOU CAN'T HEAR IT COMING, BUT IT IS. Within weeks, it came. In a blaze of publicity, General Motors launched the nation's first mass-market electric car in modern times--a whisper-quiet, aerodynamic techno-marvel christened EV1. Thousands signed up to test-drive the spiffy two-seater, engineered with the help of rocket scientists to the tune of some half a billion dollars. So far, it is available only in California and Arizona, but New York, Massachusetts and other states are clamoring for electric vehicles too. Japanese and European automakers are launching their own futuristic...
Honda is trying no harder with its electric hatchback, declaring from the outset that it would limit leases to 300, in California only, over two years. Ina Schlez, an environmental consultant, went to test-drive a Honda EV PLUS in San Francisco last month, but the dealer was unable to find the keys. "The sales guy had nothing but negative things to say about it," she says...
...experiment with such alternative sterilization techniques as steam pasteurization of beef carcasses and exposure of food to ozone, a highly reactive form of oxygen. Yet while these methods are cheaper and do not require the handling of radioactive material or disposal of nuclear wastes, they fail a critical test. Aside from cooking, only irradiation is penetrating enough, say the experts, to come close to meeting new federal guidelines mandating "zero tolerance" for microbial contamination of ground beef, which, unlike pork or poultry, is often eaten rare. Still, before irradiated beef can become available, the Department of Agriculture must issue...
...Redford. The son of a Philadelphia bartender and a clerk for the Internal Revenue Service, he coasted through Archbishop Ryan High School but never thought about college. "I didn't like school," he explains, "except for the girls and parties." He tried to become a fireman but failed the test. "The math was too hard," he says. "The police exam was easier; that's how I became...
...HEARTBURN A new blood test--coupled with an electrocardiogram--helps doctors quickly assess whether a patient with chest pains is really having a heart attack. The test measures troponin, a protein released by damaged heart muscle...