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The Web´s New Currency

A new generation of e-payment companies makes it easy to "pay as you go" for inexpensive Web content, portending big profits for online businesses.

Big-Picture Biotech

Systems biology aims to provide a clearer picture of how diseases work-and how to prevent them.

7 Hot Projects

These seven technologies are about to make their way out of the lab, onto the market-and into our lives.

Our Innovation Backlog

The flow of innovations is as strong as ever, but the U.S. is slipping in its ability to commercialize them.

The Corporate R&D Scorecard 2003

The R&D spending of 300 top technology companies.

Leading Edge

Other People's Progress

From the editor in chief

Letters

Letters

Insights and opinions from our readers

Trailing Edge

Hovercrafter

It wasn´t always smooth sailing for the inventor of the hovercraft.

Demo

Demo: Wireless for the Disabled

The Georgia Institute of Technology´s devices aid those with mobility, vision, and hearing impairments.

Columns

Lunch Is on Me

Can a thermodynamic engineer convince people to drink purified sewage?

Stop! ID Thief!

Identity theft is common-but keeping a watchful eye on your credit card accounts is now easy.

Medicine Goes to the Dogs

Pampered pets provide loopholes for biomedical entrepreneurs.

Point of Impact

Race in Medicine

Sociologist Troy Duster on the role of race in medicine.

Launch Pad

Online Meeting

SightSpeed´s technology enables delay-free video Web conferences.

Visualize

Bomb Scanners

How current airport bomb detectors operate-plus a look at the next generation of scanning technologies.

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