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...Justice, the group showed up again later in the year to disrupt a monetary conference in Melbourne, Australia. Just as graphic as the IMF protests, and hitting closer to home, was the violence associated with the Firestone tire problem. On Aug. 9 the U.S. subsidiary of Japan's Bridgestone Corp. said it was voluntarily recalling 6.5 million Firestone tires owing to safety concerns. If you owned a Ford Explorer, the country's best-selling SUV, you probably had the tires in question. Accidents caused by shreddings had already contributed to at least 46 deaths, an estimate that climbed to more...
...radiation is used instead of surgery. At the present time, it is not a replacement for standard radiation therapy or chemotherapy. Clinical trials are under way, however, that could prove that treatment during surgery using our device may be the only therapy needed. EUAN THOMSON, PRESIDENT AND CEO Photoelectron Corp. Lexington, Mass...
WIRELESS WASHING INVENTOR: ARISTON CORP. The technology of laundry isn't sexy. Wireless laundry, however, just might be. Italian manufacturer Ariston's Margarita 2000 is a washing machine equipped with a wireless transmitter for remote programming via cell phone or the Internet, so clothes can be washed and ready when you get home from the store. The folding chip, sadly, is still years away...
When the lights came back on, so did Mahaffey's television. Lo and behold, right there on the screen was an ad with a toll-free number for Invention Submission Corp., the nation's largest patent broker and promotion company. He picked up the phone and dialed...
...nine years Johnson hawked the water gun to toymakers. It was going to cost $200,000 to produce 1,000 guns. Finally, at a toy fair in New York City, he was introduced to Al Davis, now the executive vice president at Larimi Corp. "I turned around, and there was the saddest guy I'd ever seen," remembers Davis. "He'd been trying to find somebody who was interested in it. He told me that if we turned him down, he was going to give...