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Here's some news for those who don't spend all their free time in CompUSA: USB gadgets (known as key rings) are hot. These miniature devices--typically digital cameras or MP3 players--plug directly into your USB port for easy up-and downloading. They're cute and trendy and...
Nanotechnology involves using atoms and molecules to create microscopic materials including wires and tubes. Such nanowires are useful in computers, and the carbon nanotube tips Leiber is working on have application in biomolecular imaging.
Not exactly learning how to make a fire with two sticks, but perhaps just as useful. --Reported by Cathy Booth Thomas/San Antonio, Kristin Kloberdanz/Chicago, Broward Liston/Orlando, Jeanne McDowell/Los Angeles, Adam Pitluk/Dallas and Molly Worthen/Bryn Mawr
Baer dedicates the book to murdered Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, for "his courage and relentless search for the truth." But truth contains many more shades of gray than Baer is prepared to acknowledge. The Saudis are not the first useful but troubled American ally. And they are unlikely...
Houellebecq has a gift for sleepy invective; he has contempt for both freedom and authority. But he's like a bad date--brimming with rank charm but few useful judgments. The great nihilist doesn't even know what a closet Victorian he is. Michel sentimentalizes commercial sex, imagining a Western...