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...dino to nano: the baddie comes from the currently hot field of nanotechnology, the science of building microscopic machines. The hero is an unemployed computer whiz named Jack Forman, a likable blank who has the misfortune to be married to Julia, a workaholic exec at Xymos, a shady Silicon Valley start-up. Xymos builds tiny nanorobots that possess no intelligence of their own but can assemble themselves, insect-like, into swarms capable of solving complex problems, reproducing and even evolving. Since the thoughtless hubris of scientists is Crichton's Big Theme, all this must go terribly wrong. A nanoswarm gets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death Swarmed Over | 12/2/2002 | See Source »

...your report [SCIENCE, Nov. 11]. The pictures of a baby's brain, heart, stomach, umbilical cord and other major organs were amazing. This is our first baby (it's a boy), and to see all of what's growing inside me was a blessing from God. JENNIFER BARNARD Apple Valley, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 2, 2002 | 12/2/2002 | See Source »

...dried up. Corruption is rampant, with poachers depleting the region's vast fisheries. Nature preserves are under threat from mining and energy projects. Electricity is frequently shut down, even during the brutal winters. As one park ranger noted while guiding us through the thermal springs of the peninsula's Valley of Geysers, "This is the only place in Kamchatka where they can't cut off your hot water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Traveler: Land of Fire and Ice | 12/2/2002 | See Source »

...wonder the native Itelmen people once thought the volcanoes were inhabited by gomuls--ghosts who roasted whales over huge bonfires, sending forth clouds of smoke and rivers of boiling fat. After camping by the Sestryonka River, we hiked through birch forests and fields of wild purple irises to the Valley of Geysers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Traveler: Land of Fire and Ice | 12/2/2002 | See Source »

...power to recall tainted foods. The ineptness of this bureaucracy was on display last month after 1.8 million lbs. of Wampler Foods turkey meat linked to listeria were distributed to schools as part of the National School Lunch Program. It took five days for officials to tell the Cumberland Valley School District in Mechanicsburg, Pa., that the Wampler turkey slices it had continued to serve at its salad bars were part of the recall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flunking Lunch | 12/2/2002 | See Source »

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