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What, then, does it take to get everyone on the right side of the digital divide? The answer is simple, if expensive--college. Degree-bearing graduates are eight times as likely to have a computer at home and 16 times as likely to access the Internet from home as those with lower levels of education, according to a recent Commerce Department study...
...where there's dust that high on the computer keyboard," Watson says. "What we haven't done is give kids a reason to get excited about using the computer." And the only reason that works, in the Watson world view, is naked self-interest. He may be right. There's certainly no dust on the keyboards at John O'Connell high school's computer lab. It was packed with students for six hours of voluntary, credit-free SAT prep one baking-hot San Francisco Saturday afternoon in November. Diana Valdivia, a junior, signed up for the program just...
...woodwork, mind-numbingly arcane fields mix and mingle to produce cosmic upheaval with startling new realms of crossbred knowledge: astrophysics, biogeography, psychopharmacology, neurochemistry, paleobotany. This is to be expected. There are more scientists and technologists alive today than in the whole of previous history, and they have as much right to a happy and productive life as the rest...
...shows that a lymph node is less than one centimeter in size, it is considered to be normal. But on the PET/CT, Meltzer says, "we saw a very small lymph node in the right side of the neck that we thought was involved with the tumor." A biopsy that otherwise would not have been performed confirmed her suspicion...
...nanobots" far smaller than motes of dust will patrol the body, repairing aging organs and fixing genetic damage before it can turn into disease. But nanomedicine is still in its infancy, cautions Carol Dahl, co-director of the NCI/NASA collaboration. "Most of the work we're seeing out there right now asks, What are the widgets we can build? Next, the question will be, How can we apply them to solve specific problems?" Mihail Roco, adviser to the National Science Foundation's $150 million nanotechnology initiative, believes we will have an answer soon enough. He predicts that the rudiments...