Word: tolls
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With the deployment of DDT in 1939, it looked as if final victory over the mosquito might be at hand; and indeed, through the years chemical insecticides took such a toll on mosquito populations that yellow fever and other infections they carried became almost unheard-of in the developed world...
Chemicals also took a toll on mosquito research. "The age of DDT was also the dark age of entomology," says Dan Kline, another of the Mosquito Unit's scientists. "There was no money for basic research. Mosquitoes a problem? Just take some DDT and nuke 'em. Why bother with research when you can do that...
...helped build an audience for the ) future." Barry Gould, publisher of Pay-Per-View Update, predicts that the next Olympics will have a far more sophisticated array of viewing options. "I think the technology will be in place to offer the programming on a timed basis, like a toll call. You turn on your television set, and then a meter starts running." And if Letterman is still around, he'll have a field...
...main limitation on such systems is that they can deal with only relatively small vocabularies -- usually a few dozen words at a time. But that's enough to take orders at fast-food restaurants or to handle toll-free calls in which a customer must choose from a fixed list of catalog items, airline flights or bank transfer options. More than $150 million worth of voice-recognition systems were sold in the U.S. last year, according to Voice Information Associates, a research firm in Lexington, Mass., and the market is growing more than 40% a year. The big breakthrough will...
Eleven years into the epidemic, the battle against aids is going badly. Some new cases may be caused by unknown viruses, the number of stricken women is soaring -- and so is the death toll...