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  Countdown for Rocket Planes

  Planes powered by cheap reusable rockets could be the future of space transportation. But don’t look to NASA: the initiative is coming from a group of small, maverick companies.
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  Life Made to Order

  Efforts to create custom-made organisms-one DNA letter at a time-could yield new sources of energy or novel drugs.
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  Paperless Medicine

  Doctors use surprisingly low tech ways to keep track of patient information-sometimes with fatal results. Despite high costs and cultural barriers, electronic record keeping is starting to bring medicine into the digital age.
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  The Observant Computer

  Carnegie Mellon’s Alex Waibel aims to turn computers into astute observers that sense our needs-and even our emotions.