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Your Laptop’s Dirty Little Secret

By BRYAN WALSH : Coal, steel, oil — we think of these old-economy industries, and we picture pollution. Smoggy skies, fouled rivers, toxic waste. As we make the transition to a new economy, we imagine that industrial pollution will become a thing of the past. Mobile phones, laptops, MP3 players — they conjure images of […]

Intel’s Dominance Is Challenged by a Low-Power Upstart

By JOHN MARKOFF : SAN DIEGO — From mainframes to minicomputers and then PCs, each new computing generation has displaced its predecessor by reaching a broader audience and costing far less. And each time, the dominant company in one generation loses control in the next.
That’s why the PC industry’s commanding chip maker, Intel, might do […]

Weighing the Costs of a CT Scan’s Look Inside the Heart

By ALEX BERENSON and REED ABELSON
A group of cardiologists recently had a proposition for Dr. Andrew Rosenblatt, who runs a busy heart clinic in San Francisco: Would he join them in buying a CT scanner, a $1 million machine that produces detailed images of the heart?
The scanner would give Dr. Rosenblatt a new way to […]

Windows Could Use a Rush of Fresh Air

Digital Domain : By RANDALL STROSS
MICROSOFT Windows has put on a lot of weight over the years.
Beginning as a thin veneer for older software code, it has become an obese monolith built on an ancient frame. Adding features, plugging security holes, fixing bugs, fixing the fixes that never worked properly, all while maintaining compatibility with […]

Raw Materials of a Life, Revealed by Sculpture

Art Review : By HOLLAND COTTER
Spirals abound in Louise Bourgeois’s art. She says they make her think of control and freedom, and of strangling someone. So it’s perfect that her retrospective, seen in London and Paris, is now in the looping rotunda of the Guggenheim Museum. It looks great there, clean but organic — fecund, […]

Vasectomy: Safe, Simple and Little Used

By PETER JARET : Vasectomies are safer and more cost-effective than tubal ligations, the sterilization technique for women, but remain relatively underused.
A new no-scalpel vasectomy technique significantly reduces complications.
The rate of unwanted pregnancies after vasectomy remains low; most of those pregnancies can be traced to patient error.
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