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The Incredible Merge |
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| According to numerous sources ranging from the New York Times and Reuters to Fortune magazine, one clear sign of renewed economic health in this country is the recent boom in mergers and acquisitions. Even the perpetually gloomy takeover lawyer, Martin Lipton, who once declared the virtual demise of M&A activity, recently announced that, we are in a burgeoning mergers and acquisitions boom. |
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Carbon Nanotube Elec |
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| As we all know, computer chips have been getting smaller, faster, and cheaper year-by-year for decades now. Today, some $10 pocket calculators pack more power than the most sophisticated, multi-million-dollar mainframe computer of the mid-1950s. |
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Domestic Robots Are |
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| Modern medicine offers the possibility that we will all live longer and be healthier. But inevitably the last few years of most people��셲 lives will find them needing caretaking of some sort. As many Baby Boomers already know, taking care of aging parents is a labor-intensive task. Even a moderately disabled person can require around-the-clock care and more than one helper to move from place to place. |
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Technology Moves Us |
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| In The Matrix movie trilogy, humans were plugged into a powerful computer that created sensory experiences that existed only in their minds. It appears that the Sony Corporation is quietly working on a project intended to make the Matrix a reality. Five years ago, the Japanese entertainment company filed a patent for a method of firing ultrasound pulses at a person��셲 brain. |
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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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