Aloha,

Kindly trek over to:

http://www.monitor.ca/contest/final15/index1.htm

And vote for the pic in the bottom right corner, that's a young lady sleeping in a doorway near some Carravaggio sidewalk art. Here's the larger version:

http://www.monitor.ca/contest/final15/pages/fp831-gt-3_jpg.htm

It's already in the top five in People (and may have already won that category -- there's one other good shot and three PHOTOS OF LITTLE KIDS!). Unlike the contest earlier this year it will actually be done.

Obligedly, GT

Posted by GeeTee at September 10, 2002 11:57 AM | TrackBack 0

The current state of nanotechnology mirrors the level of development in the field of polymers and plastics in the 1930s, when it was in its infancy, said Kevin Ausman, director of the Rice University Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology.

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Some users in Beijing and Shanghai were redirected to Peking University's no-frills search site Tianwang, the little known cj888.com and the German-invested Baidu.com, among others. Users in Guangzhou were rerouted to the local portal 21cn.com. "It's like going to buy Coca-Cola and they say 'Well, you can't have Coke but here's grapefruit juice'," said another Beijing-based analyst.

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"We don't know how to do cloning in animals or humans, and therefore it should not be done period," said Paul Berg, Nobel laureate and professor of biochemistry at Stanford University School of Medicine.

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