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Cell Phones Chip In
Safer Calls, or Selling Fear?
In what may be another public relations challenge for the cellular phone industry, a company is marketing a device it says will prevent cell phones from harming the body. By Elisa Batista.
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Building a Better Ballot Box
MIT and Caltech join forces to develop a voting machine that will improve upon the current problematic system of punch cards and optical scanners. The universities want to bring vote miscounts to "near zero."
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How X Rates With 'W'
How will the next administration deal with pornography on the Internet? Republicans have pledged that the Justice Department will pounce on Net pornographers, and George W. Bush has railed against offensive websites. He's also endorsed library and school filtering. Declan McCullagh reports from Washington.
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MS Issues Profit Warning
The software giant says revenue and profits will be lower than expected this quarter due to a slowdown in spending by technology companies.
in Business

FTC OKs AOL Time Warner
The mega-media acquisition gets the thumbs up from the Federal Trade Commission, paving the way for the largest deal in U.S. history. But the ISP and media companies still must pass muster with the FCC.
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Profit Jitters Take Down Markets
The bad earnings news hasn't bottomed out, as investors had hoped -- Chase Manhattan and J.P. Morgan join the chorus of profit warnings. Of course, stocks slide.
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Med-Tech
Long Live the Fruit Fly
Scientists discover a gene mutation which can double the life of the insect. Researchers say humans share the "I'm not dead yet" gene.
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It's Snowing in Your Inbox
Midwestern meteorologists chart when and where you can expect that blizzard. Log on to get a personalized, hour-by-hour neighborhood weather forecast, coming soon to your local news station's website. By Katie Dean.
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Video Games in the Crosshairs
Violent video games featuring specific gun manufacturers' brands are nothing more than a marketing tool for those companies, a gun control group charges.
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Business: In Brief
DT Discounts Network Access
German telecom giant loosens its grip on its network. Also: Cisco seals its 22nd acquisition deal of the year.... Xerox sells its China operation.... and more.
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Med-Tech
Med Records Get Cue From Napster
About 50,000 deaths occur each year due to medical errors, often linked to doctors not having information at their fingertips. A company is creating Napster-like peer-to-peer technology to hasten access to medical records. By Michelle Delio.
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Disabled Need Tools for Schools
The National Science Foundation releases an extensive set of production guidelines to make learning software usable by those with impaired manual dexterity, low or no vision, or hearing impairments. By Karen Solomon.
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Solving China's Dot-Com Puzzle
Companies eyeing the world's largest consumer market face a labyrinth of governmental and cultural obstacles. A new book uses fictional characters to help foreign entrepreneurs develop sustainable Web businesses. Amy Wu reports from Hong Kong.
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Scour: Going, Going, Gone
Scour, Inc.'s assets were auctioned off to the highest bidder. The final tally: $9 million paid out by surprise winner, CenterSpan Communications. By Brad King and Jeffrey Terraciano.
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Pope Assails West
The Western lifestyle festers in "spiritual and moral impovershment" and the West's near-monopoly on technology allows it to dominate mass communications, posing a threat to other cultures. So says Pope John Paul II, in a message sent to world leaders two weeks ahead of the Catholic Church's Day of Peace. The pontiff urged others to reject "slavish conformity" to Western culture, calling it a "phenomenon of vast proportions, sustained by powerful media campaigns" designed to propagate Western viewpoints that damage other cultures.


   

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