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The New Technology B |
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| There��셲 no question that 2004 was a tremendous year for the consumer electronics industry. Total shipments of U.S. consumer electronic products climbed 11 percent for the year, to $113.5 billion, according to the Consumer Electronics Association. And 2005 is expected to be even bigger, with another 11 percent increase predicted by the association. |
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Self-Esteem Is a Rea |
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| In earlier generations, teachers worried about students mastering skills rather than having high self-esteem. They knew that high self-esteem in the long run was the product of high achievement, not the other way around. But, based on spurious beliefs about what determines human performance, the emphasis of education has changed dramatically over the past two to three decades. |
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Decision Making for |
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| Is it a safer investment for an American company to build a new plant in Mexico ?or in China? |
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Intelligent Robots W |
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| One of the oldest dreams of science has been creating a human-like machine. Teams of researchers have been working for half a century to create machines that can do useful work and also share some characteristics of animals and humans ?in other words, robots. |
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RNA Runs Interferenc |
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| At the same time stem cells are promising unprecedented hope for conditions requiring replacement of tissue, another new technology called ��쏳NA interference��� may be even bigger. This technology promises to address the one-third of human maladies that are the result of genetic glitches that can��셳 be fixed by stem cells or by any of today��셲 ��쐁onventional��� therapies. |
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