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  Creating a Culture of Ideas

  Nicholas Negroponte says expertise is overrated. To build a nation of innovators, we should focus on youth, diversity, and collaboration.
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  Supercomputing Resurrected

  Last year, Japan fired up an ultrafast computer that puts its closest competitors to shame. What will it take for the United States to catch up?
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  Personalized Medicine’s Bitter Pill

  Drugs tailored to an individual’s genetic makeup promise to be safer and more effective, but they raise tricky economic and ethical questions.
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  Robot Sky Patrol

  Unmanned aerial vehicles could help tame wildfires, unsnarl traffic jams, and even find a better cup of joe.