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Technology Review: November/December 1997

Food Irradiation: Will It Keep the Doctors Away?

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?

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?

Columns

Look Out for the Luddite Label

Tagging thoughtful skeptics as anti-technology effectively excludes them from policy debates.

Reviews

Learning from Venus

Venus Revealed: A New Look Below the Clouds of Our Mysterious Twin Planet

Reconciling the Visionary with the Inventor
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