Word: third
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INTERNET COME-ONS While some men may be thrilled, doctors are alarmed. During a two-week period, more than 75 Internet sites were selling Viagra directly to consumers without a prescription. And more than a third of them didn't provide any online medical evaluation. The big problem: Viagra can pose serious risks for men with heart conditions and those on hypertension drugs...
HACKER INSURANCE With hackers seemingly able to break into even the most secure systems at big corporations, small businesses have been reluctant to take orders and credit-card payments online--fewer than a third of them do. But where there's fear, there's opportunity. A handful of insurance companies offer antihacker policies to small companies. For $1,500 a year, INSUREtrust.com covers up to $5 million for hacker-induced losses, including third-party lawsuits. Similar policies are offered by Evanston Insurance Co. and Lloyd's of London. Alas, none of these policies will bail you out when you crash...
...Benzer is searching through our genes for a sort of clock of clocks that tells us where we are in the sweep from the cradle to the grave and decides how fast we age. Recently he discovered a mutant fruit fly that lives more than 100 days, about one-third longer than the rest of the madding crowd in a fly bottle. What makes the difference is a single gene, which Benzer calls Methuselah...
...will be to find uses for the diminishing amount of discarded materials. Maybe, with the help of brokering services on the Internet, we can generalize the principle that governs garage sales: One person's garbage is another's treasure. When that attitude goes global, the human beings of the third millennium may be able to look back on their former garbage-producing ways as a forgivable error of their youth as a species...
...humans fit into the natural world that will settle whether Malthus was right or wrong. He was wrong in 1798. But if he had been writing 10,000 years earlier, before agriculture, he would have been right. And were his book being published today, on the brink of the third millennium, he would be more right than wrong. Let me explain...