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November/December 1997
Food Irradiation: Will It Keep the Doctors Away?
Every major food and health organization has endorsed food irradiation as a foolproof and safe way to rid our food supply of disease-causing microbes. Then why aren´t we using it?
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Features

Business Impact

Strong Medicine

One of the nation’s top health-care executives explains what’s needed to sustain the health of the hospitals that bring us the latest technological advances.
Business Impact
The Great Unknown: Readers Respond
Intelligent Machines
The Incredible Shrinking Transistor
Intelligent Machines
High-Tech for Ancient Turtles

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Welcoming our New Editor

Detecting "Rail Cancer"

Intelligent Machines

A Model for Maturing Markets

Intelligent Machines

Looking Inside Earth for Life on Mars

Detecting Earthquakes from Space

Preventing Culture Clash on the World Wide Web

Sustainable Energy

Heavenly Highways for Cyclists

Sustainable Energy

Greener Dry Cleaners

The Next Internet Hero

The technologically adventurous folk who planted the sees for the Web have done their job. Now it’s time for a new breed–the public hacker–to take over.

Sustainable Energy

What I Learned in the Rainforest

To grow and thrive, businesses should heed a few simple principles drawn form the globe’s most diverse ecosystem.

Intelligent Machines

Washing a Mirror of the Universe

Intelligent Machines

Look Out for the Luddite Label

Tagging thoughtful skeptics as anti-technology effectively excludes them from policy debates.

Review

Learning from Venus

Venus Revealed: A New Look Below the Clouds of Our Mysterious Twin Planet

Business Impact

Reconciling the Visionary with the Inventor

Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla

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