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Plan to Store Stem Cells for “True Life Insurance”

August 1st, 2003 at 12:25 am » Comments (0)

A new company is offering a form of elective insurance in which people pay for the collection, processing and storage of their own healthy stem cells for future healthcare needs.
NeoStem, devoted to pioneering adult stem cell therapeutics, has introduced its “True Life Insurance” for independent insurance agents to offer to clients.
Whereas traditional life insurance comes [...]



Computer Hacking 101

August 1st, 2003 at 12:10 am » Comments (0)

Computer hackers have adopted a startling strategy in their attempts to break into websites. By using the popular search engine Google, they do not have to visit a site to plan an attack. Instead, they can get all the information they need from Google’s cached versions of web pages, say experts in the US.
One [...]



Disposable Digital Cameras Have Arrived

August 1st, 2003 at 12:00 am » Comments (0)

Digital cameras usually sell for $200 and up, a lot more than their film equivalents. But Ritz Camera has begun to sell (and in Wisconsin, Walgreens is test-marketing) a single-use digital camera that costs about as much as, and works like, a disposable film camera. The Ritz Dakota Digital and the Studio 35 Digital from [...]