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Gamble and the other CPD officers who patrol Area 4 take special care of the tract surrounding the Area 4 Youth Center. CPD officers can sometimes even be found joining the kids for a quick game of basketball...
...depository, then, which shares a suburban tract of land 30 miles from the Yard with the Harvard Medical School's New England Primate Research Center, is essentially a retirement home for books that haven't been checked out for several years...
...matter. E-noses have other, more practical uses. Osmetech, a British e-nose company, has dedicated itself to the detection of diseases. Its e-nose can sniff out six of the seven types of bacteria responsible for urinary-tract infections. Microsensor Systems of Orlando, Fla., makes a $9,800 portable device equipped with crystal sensors that can sniff out spoiling food and chemical weapons with equal ease. Caltech researchers sent one of their chips on John Glenn's space-shuttle mission last year to keep tabs on the quality of the cabin air. An adventurous Cyranose was even used...
...found a tract of land for sale and were dead certain it would be worth 10 times the price to a developer, you'd sell or hock everything you own to buy it. Right? Well, that's the way investors around the globe are behaving with NASDAQ stocks. A massive liquidation of nontech assets is under way as people reach for the means to buy more Cisco, 3com and Apple. It's an incredible display of pack investing that begs the question, Is NASDAQ bulletproof...
...After college, Mailer served in the Philippines during World War II. He used many of his personal experiences in writing The Naked and the Dead, which became an enormous, unexpected success. Mailer viewed the book as a serious anti-war tract, and its popularity startled him. "I must have done something wrong," he remarked. "They shouldn't have liked it." He had burst onto the scene as a major new writer and felt enormous pressure to follow up The Naked and the Dead with an even greater book, but he never would write "the big one" that he always yearned...