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...course of invention, from concept to commercial use, almost always runs over many years, so we limited our list of candidates to products that have become available to their ultimate users during the calendar year 2000. Many of these were granted patents several or more years ago. Some fascinating products that are already demonstrably successful nonetheless missed the cut because they won't reach consumers until early 2001. Because the yield from our survey was far more than these three inventions, we are including a gallery featuring dozens of other products, devices and ideas. Some are serious in their impact...
...process of invention is an endless churn of activity that has little respect for the calendar. But in an effort to celebrate what has become a binge of industrial and scientific creativity around the world, the editors of TIME have locked the creative achievements of the year 2000 into freeze-frame and selected three Inventions of the Year. They are from the areas of CONSUMER TECHNOLOGY, MEDICAL SCIENCE and BASIC INDUSTRY...
...culture we live in: "In what resides the most characteristic virtue of humanity? In good works? Possibly. In the creation of beautiful objects? Perhaps. But some would look in a different direction, and find it in detachment. To all such, David Hume must be a great saint in the calendar.... To have no axe to grind is something very noble and very rare. It may be said to be the antithesis of the bestial...
RUNNER-UP: 12 Seasons Cookbook by Alfred Portale with Andrew Friedman (Broadway; $45) The chef of the celebrated Gotham Bar & Grill in New York City races around the culinary calendar, daring other cooks to keep up with him. We're stirring as fast...
Zewinski expects the Physical Sciences building to be completed by the end of calendar year...