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...course, you don't see a majority of the public pooh-poohing the idea of cells or atoms, and with good reason. These ideas do not mess with the way we perceive ourselves. The presence or absence of atoms does not throw a monkey wrench into our 16th-century self-concept. Scientific investigation, when not self-applied, is lauded and useful, but when it threatens to rock our pedestal, well, it is all just "theories" anyway. We accept the fruits of science and rational, empirical exploration of the physical world without embracing these precepts in our bones, without having...
...name eBay conjures up Bongo the Monkey, Huggy the Bear and the rest of the Beanie Baby clan, you're about three years behind the times. Computer giant Sun Microsystems is listing up to 150 items a day on eBay, including e4500 servers that sell for as much as $15,000. eBay Motors, which launched last April, is the third biggest auto-sales site on the Internet. And eBay's new Business Exchange, which has listings for $6,000 backhoes and $25,000 lathes, has doubled its offerings in the past quarter...
Seeing-eye dogs are great, but why should one animal have a monopoly on helping the blind? Given the existence of hearing-ear cats, seizure-assist pigs and monkey helpers for quadriplegics, it should come as no surprise that miniature horses are being trained to guide the blind. Lilliputian creatures, roughly 2 ft. tall at the shoulder, they come equipped with a good memory, excellent night vision and absurdly cute sneakers to provide traction indoors. But perhaps the greatest advantage is the ponies' 25- to 35-year life span. Says Dan Shaw, 44, of Ellsworth, Maine, who will receive...
...There has been one NFL-style changing of the guard from last year - the dearth of dot-coms. Gone from this year's lineup are Britannica.com, Lifeminders.com, OurBeginning.com, Pets.com and 10 other pretenders; this year there are only three: E*Trade (the monkey returns), Hotjobs.com and Monster.com. The lineup itself is a tech bellwether: One dot-com for dumping your worthless stock options and two to help you find...
...scientists in Oregon have taken a tiny step toward doing what many scientists have said no scientist would ever want to do--use genetics to change, improve or enhance our children. Sticking genes into eggs and growing a healthy monkey means that someday scientists could and most likely would insert genes into human eggs to try to make kids smarter, stronger, faster, healthier or happier than their parents...