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...mopey creature on my TV screen. My wife is beginning to suspect that I'm having an affair with it. I'm not sure she's wrong. Seaman ($49.95) is a truly bizarre new game for Dreamcast, Sega's plucky, we're-not-PlayStation home-gaming console--but I use the term game loosely...
...also one of the most compelling. When Seaman was released in Japan last year, it quickly sold more than 550,000 units to become the most popular Dreamcast game ever. A technological breakthrough, it's the first video game ever to use voice recognition. You talk; Seaman listens. The game comes with a little microphone, so you and your virtual pet can engage in virtual banter together, with Seaman relying on its 12,000 lines of preprogrammed dialogue...
...even if the association between early infections and a reduced risk of asthma turns out to be real, you can't use it as a basis for healing kids afflicted with asthma. Their immune systems have already made a fundamental shift into asthmatic overdrive. Uncontrolled exposure would only make them sicker. Similarly, the Arizona findings would not apply to babies who are born prematurely and are thus more vulnerable to infections than full-term babies...
Under new guidelines issued last week by the National Institutes of Health, government-funded scientists will be allowed to use early-stage embryos left over from in-vitro fertilizations in their attempts to understand and control how stem cells turn into specific kinds of tissues--so long as they are harvested by private firms. With government money finally behind it, says pioneering stem-cell researcher John Gearhart of Johns Hopkins University, "the work will move forward rapidly...
...Everyone wins," says Mary Anne Ward, president of Schools at Work, a work-site-school consulting firm. "Companies can set up a school for as little as a few thousand dollars and then use the school as a recruiting and retention tool. Overcrowded school districts don't have to find extra space for their kids. And parents get to be near their children and be more involved in the school...