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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...female, chronomedicine may hold special appeal...because your biology constantly reminds you of the body's natural cycles," the authors note. "If you are male, you may be surprised to learn how much a creature of rhythms you are, too, with every function of your life--sleeping, waking, working, and working out--governed by your body clock." Even skeptical readers may be won over by this persuasive book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: Making A House Call | 6/26/2000 | See Source »

...architect, the prestige of classical modernism was as high as it would ever be. Even after he started his own firm in 1962, his private-home projects and small public buildings largely satisfied modernist expectations that any structure should be a spare, unified form clearly expressing its underlying function. All the while, Gehry was powerfully interested in painting and sculpture and the rising West Coast art scene. He counted as friends some of its emerging stars, including Billy Al Bengston, Ed Moses and Ed Ruscha. What he really wanted was the freedom they had to play with surrealism, assemblage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Architecture: The Frank Gehry Experience | 6/26/2000 | See Source »

...another way, they will not know "computers" as a distinct category of object or function. This, I think, is the logical outcome of genuinely ubiquitous computing, of the fully wired world. The wired world will consist, in effect, of a single unbroken interface. The idea of a device that "only" computes will perhaps be the ultimate archaism in a world in which the fridge or the toothbrush is potentially as smart as any other object, including you, a world in which intelligent objects communicate, routinely and constantly, with one another and with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will We Plug Chips Into Our Brains? | 6/19/2000 | See Source »

STREAMLINED Ford design manager Ehab Kaoud believes that from now on, car styling will be driven more by function than form. "The idea is to optimize interior space while minimizing exterior volume," says Kaoud. Result: less weight, better gas mileage. The interior of the future Ford, left, will be infinitely customizable. Dashboards, for instance, may be vast displays with gauges, maps and video images arranged at whim

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Will We Drive? | 6/19/2000 | See Source »

...Galluccio says Grogan's assistants have no real power and function primarily to prevent the University from having to make real change...

Author: By Robert K. Silverman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Splintered Partnership: Harvard, City Spar Publicly | 6/8/2000 | See Source »

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