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...software company, rather than, say, as a content and Internet company like AOL Time Warner. The word content, which figured prominently in Microsoft pronouncements and acquisitions just a few months ago, was barely uttered. "Software is our heritage, and it's our future," said Ballmer. "Our plan is to develop a new software-services platform that will ignite opportunities for partners around the world." Microsoft, by developing what it calls Next Generation Windows Services--software that will shift applications such as databases and word processing from your computer to a server--appears to be preparing not only the technology...
...risk of sounding species-centric, I think words are cooler than pheromones. Words lent vital impetus to a whole new kind of evolution, a cultural evolution through which politics and religion and technology develop. Note how much of the evolving technology, in particular, is an infrastructure for non-zero-sum games--from the Silk Road, which eased mutually profitable exchange, to the Internet, which lets you play more games with more people than ever before. Meanwhile, social complexity has grown, just as organic complexity grew via biological evolution...
Most of the time, the best treatment for flu is to dive under the covers and forget the world for a week. Be sure to alert your doctor, however, if you start having trouble breathing, develop a rattle in your chest or your fever persists. You may be developing pneumonia. Only your doctor can determine whether an antiflu drug is right for you. But remember, the most that Relenza or Tamiflu can do for you is cut your downtime by a day or two--and then only if you take it within 48 hours of the first symptoms...
SICKLE SCREEN Some infants with sickle-cell anemia will go on to develop serious, life-threatening problems. But which ones? Now researchers think they have an objective way to make that determination: sick kids with very high white-blood-cell counts, low hemoglobin and swelling in their arms and legs are twice as likely to suffer severe complications by the time they're 10 years old. That means they're probably good candidates for new, but risky, experimental treatments like stem-cell transplants...
COASTER CLOTS Some thrill. Japanese researchers report that at least four people have developed blood clots on the brain after riding giant, high-speed roller coasters. The clots, called subdural hematomas, occur when vessels near the surface of the brain rupture and leak. Clots from coasters are still extremely rare, but as a safeguard, the researchers suggest no more than two rides in a row. If you develop a headache, vomiting or confusion, get to a doctor fast...