Technology Review: May/June 1997
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Clicking onto Webzines
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Collecting, selecting, and refining the stories that go online, web-based magazines are transforming the internet experience. But these embryonic publications don´t yet fully exploit the new medium´s potential-and their financial viability is in question.
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First Line
- Good-bye Dolly,...
- ...unless the government permits, oversees, and funds sensible cloning research
Forum
- Next Stop: The Electric Bus
- Densely populated Third World megacities, choking on polluted air, provide a splendid opportunity for introducing electric vehicles on a large scale.
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Features
- Data Smog: Surviving the Info Glut
- The ability to churn out ever greater volumes of information in a variety of formats has exceeded our ability to process it. Fortunately, firm action, both personal and political, can help clear the air.
- Missile Defense: The Sequel
- Today´s programs for defending against missile attacks are less ambitious than the Reagan-era Star Wars efforts. But the new systems are still too easily foiled, and their deployment would slow arms cuts.
- Killing the Last Cancer Cell
- Recognizing that tumor cells lurking in the body after cancer treatment will cause a relapse of cancer, scientists are working to employ nature´s army-the immune system-to destroy remaining enemy outposts.
- The Case of the Vanishing Frogs
- Are the world´s amphibians-vulnerable to eco-logical changes in water and on land-acting like canaries in a coal mine, warning us of environmental dangers below the threshold of human perception?
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Columns
- Taking on the Database Challenge and Winning
- Score one for the scientific community, which banded together to stop a proposed intellectual-property treaty that would have privatized huge stores of knowledge.
- Computers and Hope in an Urban Ark
- Revealing how computers can provide hope amid poverty, children in one urban community are posting their drawings, poems, and other creations on the Net.
Reviews
- Opening Up a Dialogue
- Dealing with an Angry Public: The Mutual Gains Approach to Resolving Disputes
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