Word: celle
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...they had finished decoding chromosome 21, the strand of DNA responsible for, among other things, Down syndrome. And a California company, DoubleTwist, Inc., said it had used data from the public genome project to pinpoint 65,000 individual genes, out of the 100,000 or so in each human cell...
...Smart materials could make any surface or gadget feel like wood one day and metal the next. Intelligent chairs might conform perfectly to your posture, giving you a much needed back rub in the process. Embedded systems and biometric, body-sensing technology will enable every piece of hardware, from cell phones and PDAs to PCs, to know exactly who you are and where, as well as to communicate with every other piece...
...backlash is inevitable. Perhaps people will pay a premium to live in "advertising-free zones," just as, perhaps, they will be willing to pay a premium to live in cell phone-free zones...
...Clinton--rebelled. The lesson: be vague. There's a corollary: if you must be specific, then be inoffensive. That's partly how Clinton won re-election. He avoided thornbushes like Social Security and instead put forward detailed but uncontroversial notions such as expanding food-safety inspections and providing cell phones to neighborhood-watch groups. No one said these were bad ideas, which was exactly the point. They were without risk...
...part movie set in different ages, all stories converging at the climax. Figgis is more modest: he has four interlocking sketches of show-biz life (all shot simultaneously), one for each quadrant of a split screen. The mood is tres California: four earthquakes and a dying man taking a cell-phone call! When things go slack, you can stare at some of the world's most watchable women (Saffron Burrows, Salma Hayek, Leslie Mann, Golden Brooks). But this spectacle of strenuous improvising is more stunt than true experiment. Nice try, folks. Now go back and make some movies...