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...Japanese technology is being used to boost an old business: selling booze by machine. Prompted by a beverage-industry crackdown on underage drinking, several manufacturers have developed machines that can verify the age of the buyer. Kyoto-based Fujitaka, for instance, has installed sensors clever enough to read the birth date on a driver's license?and savvy enough to recognize a fake ID. Another breakthrough allows machines to send messages directly to maintenance workers, alerting them if a machine needs repair, drinks or snacks?making distribution and upkeep more efficient. Sanyo, meanwhile, has devised a way to fight Japan...
...thanks to technology, there is a new point of contention - the advent of the so-called "morning-after" pill, or emergency contraception, has introduced a new wrinkle in the battle over abortions. Women can take the hormone-laden pills (essentially a super-dose of regular birth control pills) up to 72 hours after intercourse to prevent an unwanted pregnancy. Depending on the stage of a woman's menstrual cycle, the pills will either keep an egg from making itself available to a sperm, or will stop a fertilized egg from implanting itself into the uterus...
...Birth to 1 Year Babies are developing an attention span and motor control...
...fact is, the kids don't have to feel so pressured--and neither do their parents. It is true, as the marketers say, that a baby's brain is a fast-changing thing. Far from passively sponging up information, it is busy from birth laying complex webs of neurons that help it grow more sophisticated each day. It takes anywhere from a year to five years, depending on the part of the brain, for this initial explosion of connections to be made, after which many of them shut down and wither away, as the brain decides which it will keep...
...skills. What gives the theory special weight is that there is, in fact, a little truth to it--but only very little. When it comes to language--perhaps the most nuanced skill a person can master--the brain does appear to have fertile and less fertile periods. At birth, babies have the potential to learn any language with equal ease, but by six months, they have begun to focus on the one tongue they hear spoken most frequently. Parents can take advantage of this brain plasticity by introducing a second or even third language, but only if they intend...