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...semiconductors and the high-tech equipment needed to make them should take note: products such as cars and medical devices--from pacemakers to hearing aids--are taking up a lot of the slack left after the telecom bust. APPLIED DIGITAL SOLUTIONS' new VeriChip, for example, is injected under your skin and when scanned--say, in the emergency room--gives doctors a complete medical history. The semiconductor recovery won't be complete without renewed demand from traditional users such as CISCO and NORTEL. But if they kick in later this year, it could be a great time for the industry...
...Sweet Smell" has to be seen as well as heard, and the place to do that right now is at Manhattan's Film Forum, where a splendid new 35mm print is unspooling through March 28. The big screen and clear print lets you see the pockmarks on J.J.'s skin (the harsh lighting that cinematographer James Wong Howe threw on Lancaster makes him look by turns reptilian and leprous), allows you to read the small print on the cover of a scandal magazine called Sensation (the lead story: "Sex in the City"). But the picture looks good in any size...
...more Harvard than Harvard’ House,” says Gene Koo ’97, a tutor in Pforzheimer House who lived in Eliot as an undergraduate. “If you were to go through the yearbook I think you could basically look at the skin color of people in the House and you would see it was decidedly lighter skinned than Pforzheimer House...
REPAIR KIT In a scientific first, researchers report that adult stem cells circulating in the bloodstream don't just regenerate the blood supply; they can also morph into skin, liver and intestinal tissue. What's the significance? The news suggests that the body may have a stash of universal repair cells, capable of being dispatched to wherever they are needed--and which someday may be used to treat disease without having to rely on the controversial stem cells taken from human embryos...
...represents the hardhat, gun rack, achin’-back over-taxed, flag-wavin’, fun-lovin’ crowd!), and there are songs for Democrats, like the treacly “We Shall Be Free” (When the last thing we notice is the color of skin / And the first thing we look for is the beauty within / When the skies and the oceans are clean again / Then we shall be free). And the man does have an amazing voice...