Apr 2000
96 pages
Vol. 256, No. 4
ISSN 0161-7370
Published by Bonnier Corporation
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Contents | 22 | | Steven Beckwith, Hubble Space Telescope | | | 37 | | Fuel cell automobiles, Hydrogen as fuel | | | 41 | | Pontiac Aztek (Automobile) | | | 45 | | High definition television, Lasers, Diffraction gratings | | | 46 | | Biomedical engineering, Heart | |
| 56 | | United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Space flight (Accidents) | | | 62 | | U.S. Customs Service, Smuggling, X ray equipment, Backscattering (Physics) | | | 64 | | Bioengineered foods, Food handling | | | 70 | | Buick LeSabre (Automobile), Chevrolet Impala (Automobile), Ford Taurus (Automobile), Toyota Avalon (Automobile) | | | 75 | | United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Biological warfare, Antidotes | |
More | 51 | | Digital cameras, Video printers | |
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| Starkville, Mississippi - Page 36NASA Stennis Space Center in Starkville, Mississippi. The maser has enough power to meet the data needs for the entire country, says the company. ... |
| Strong, Maine - Page 82Strong Wood Products, which produces the Richwood brand, and Forster, which makes the brand of that same name, have plants in Strong, Maine. ... |
| Gig Harbor, Washington - Page 27RICHARD GAGLIANO'S house looks just like any other in his Gig Harbor, Washington, neighborhood. But unlike nearly every other house in the country, ... |
| Fort Washington, Pennsylvania - Page 68Last fall, McNeil Consumer Healthcare, headquartered in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, introduced a margarine called Benecol that promises to lower ... |
| East Hanover, New Jersey - Page 68Sometime this year, East Hanover, New Jersey-based Novartis plans on launching hot chocolate that can settle an upset stomach. ... |
| Canton, Massachusetts - Page 49The biotechnology company Organogenesis in Canton, Massachusetts, is working on one possible solution: creating blood vessels from natural collagen ... |
| Blair, Nebraska - Page 22Cargill Dow Polymers, a joint venture of Cargill Inc. and the Dow Chemical Co., will make NatureWorks PLA at a factory in Blair, Nebraska. ... |
| Billerica, Massachusetts - Page 63One version of the technology called Bodysearch, made by American Science & Engineering of Billerica, Massachusetts, is what you see at airports with ... |
| Sunnyvale, California - Page 45by David Bloom of Stanford, the system now exists as a development platform at Silicon Light Machines, which he founded in Sunnyvale, California. ... |
| Holland, Michigan - Page 42The new system, developed by Donnelly Corp. of Holland, Michigan, uses an infrared detector to sense the heat of a person's body. ... |
| Nantucket, Massachusetts - Page 86Instead, they heard WRZE from Nantucket, Massachusetts, an island more than 200 miles away. Meanwhile, New Yorkers vacationing in Nantucket were ... |
| Charlottesville - Page 78As part of the DARPA initiative, Ron Taylor at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville is drawing up battle plans to tackle such a threat as ... |
| Blacksburg - Page 68Says Tracy Wilkins, director of biotechnology at Virginia Polytechnic Institute in Blacksburg: "If we don't get started soon, we're not going to be ... |
| Knoxville - Page 68Peter Gresshoff at the University of Tennesee in Knoxville has already found a gene that causes the soybean to produce more nodules, sacs along the ... |
| Las Vegas - Page 40Driving through the mountains between Las Vegas and Lake Mead, we almost forgot we were at the wheel of an "entry-level" car. ... |
| Tampa - Page 35Testing of these and other concepts in a real world environment is slated for Tampa late this year, say GTE representatives. ... |
| Staten Island - Page 86Listeners on Staten Island could see the Empire State Building across the water where WQXR's transmitter is located, but they couldn't hear the ... |
| Baltimore - Page 77One project being undertaken at Osiris Therapeutics in Baltimore seeks to genetically engineer cells found in bone marrow, called mesenchymal stem ...more pages: 22 |
| Oklahoma City - Page 25Eddie Grant, an engineer at North Carolina State University, got the idea while talking with an Oklahoma City official who said — in the wake of the ... |
| Seattle - Page 50Researchers at the University of Washington Engineered Biomaterials Center in Seattle are talking about developing a ventricular patch, says Director ... |
| Denver - Page 58Today he's vice president for Flight Systems at Lockheed Martin Astronautics in Denver and worried about the modern crop of engineers who get so ... |
| San Diego - Page 42During our test drive with the Sport Trac on the winding roads near San Diego, we found that one of the neatest features of the sport-utility is its ... |
| Bronx, New York - Page 14IN 2001, the Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, New York, will open a children's facility that will be the first space-themed hospital with ... |
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| Detroit - Page 37GM made its announcement at this year's North American International Auto Show in Detroit, where such automakers as Ford, Honda, Toyota, ... |
| Boston - Page 49Simon Hoerstrup at Children's Hospital in Boston has implanted experimental valves in six lambs; the valves functioned for several months. ... |
| Pasadena, California - Page 59"Faster, better, cheaper . . . pick two out of three," went a bitter backroom joke at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California. ... |
| New York City - Page 75a man carrying nothing but a briefcase rents a car and drives 30 miles to a Yonkers reservoir, the Last stop for water headed to New York City. ...more pages: 66 |
| New Orleans - Page 26Jazz is a test-tube baby, born last November at the Audubon Institute Center for Research of Endangered Species in New Orleans — the first animal ever ... |
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