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...distinctly Gen X, light-years from boomers' idealized image of their own youth, forged in the crucibles of the civil rights, antiwar and feminist movements. Is there a generation gap? "Oh, my God, I'd have to say yeah!" she answers. Before Hard Candy, she wanted to be a plastic surgeon, a goal her father, a cancer researcher, opposed. "My dad does not believe medicine should be used for high-class fashion--it puts patients at risk," she explains. "But I think it's O.K. to use surgery to feel better about yourself." Nonetheless, she is close to her parents...
Once, he was punched by another driver during a traffic argument, and thereafter carried a piece of plastic that resembled a meat hook, the mere appearance of which he says helped to settle road disputes more smoothly...
This month the Greenpeace environmental group and Britain's Cooperative Bank created the world's first biodegradable credit card. Made of a naturally occurring plastic, the card takes only a few weeks to disintegrate in ordinary compost. Trade-named Biopol, the plastic is extracted from a microorganism. Monsanto, which makes Biopol, is developing ways of inserting the microorganism's metabolic process into plants through biotechnology...
Before her fourth-grade class on the Monday after her Friday disappointment, Tracy Robinson loads the manipulatives--the little bars of different colors, each representing a different fraction--into plastic bags. When her students walk in, she distributes the bags. The book she was reading from on Friday is nowhere in evidence. She asks her pupils to use the bars to construct flat, box-shaped designs on their desks. Three of one color, they soon discover, will fill the same space as four of another. When each child has a mosaic on his or her desk, Robinson begins the verbal...
Thus began what Provost and her three-member team called "the Rick project." Their lives now dictated by pagers and cell phones, they took turns in the lab, almost round the clock, running tests over and over. First the stem cells were collected in an elaborate maze of plastic tubing, then they were purged of cancer cells--a confetti of malignant cells sticking to columns of coated beads like flies to flypaper. Unfortunately, the purging process wasn't eliminating all the cancer cells. The experiment seemed to be failing. Then, in a last-minute brainstorm, Provost's team decided...