Technology Review: November/December 1997
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Food Irradiation: Will It Keep the Doctors Away?
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Every major food and health organization has endorsed food irradiation as a foolproof and safe way to rid our food supply of disease-causing microbes. Then why aren´t we using it?
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Features
- Strong Medicine
- One of the nation´s top health-care executives explains what´s needed to sustain the health of the hospitals that bring us the latest technological advances.
- The Great Unknown: Readers Respond
- In July, we asked readers to pick today´s most profound questions of science. The results, tabulated here, show that while the questions are scientific, the process of identifying them is anything but.
- The Incrediable Shrinking Transistor
- Fifty years ago, researchers at Bell Labs put theory into practice and started a revolution in electronics. Can today´s companies foster the same lively interplay between the practical and the scientific?
- High-Tech for Ancient Turtles
- Some of the world´s oldest and most remarkable creatures are dying out. Can advanced technologies help rescue the leatherback sea turtle and other endangered animals?
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