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Technology Review: December 2004

A New Vision for Nuclear Waste

Storing nuclear waste underground at Yucca Mountain for 100,000 years is a terrible idea. A better approach may be to buy some time -- until new containment technologies mature.

To Fight, Verizon Switches

Fighting to stay relevant as telephony, television, and the Internet merge, telecom giant Verizon is installing new switches and fiber that could provide all of tomorrow's media services -- whatever they turn out to be.

Generic Biotech

Biotech drugs can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. Cheaper generic versions could save countless lives, but proving their safety and effectiveness is no easy task.

Special Report: R&D ’04

Technology Review´s annual look at corporate research trends and numbers including the R&D spending of 150 top technology companies, plus profiles of three hot research projects.

Portable Projectors

Ramesh Raskar of the Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory demonstrates how miniprojectors could be the antidote to handheld devices’ shrinking screens.

Columns

Showing Up

Revisiting the fortunes of past column subjects.

Screen Test

Forget photo prints and frames. Flat-screen displays are a much better way to hang pictures on your walls.

Innovation Diffusion

Last word: for better and for worse, today’s technological innovations spread faster than ever.

Point of Impact

Modifying GM Food Perception

Simon Barber on Europe´s reluctance to accept genetically modified foods.

Launch Pad

Dual-Mode Vaccines

Vaxinnate´s vaccines may provide better stimulation of the immune system.

Visualize

Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis

How a new screening method used with in vitro fertilization can detect genetic diseases before an embryo ever enters the womb.

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