Workplace and health: a survey of classical orchestral musicians in the United Kingdom and Germany.
Abstract--This article presents the results of a survey that was carried out among UK and German professional classical musicians between November 2000 and April 2001. The UK Musicians' Union and the German musicians' union, the Deutsche Orchester Vereinigung (DOV), assisted greatly with the duplication and distribution of the questionnaires....

Pushing the PC to the speed of light.
Computer components are shrinking, but the chips they sit on keep getting larger, creating information delays from one circuit to another. So electrical and computer engineer Kenneth O is creating a miniature wireless network to transmit data right across the chip. O and his graduate students at the University...

Computers Don't Compost.
SWITZERLAND -- Growing stockpiles of cyber-trash -- computers, monitors, circuit boards -- threaten to leach mercury, lead, cadmium, chromium, and PCBs into landfills and groundwater supplies. If these junked appliances are incinerated, the heavy metals wind up in our atmosphere. According to the Clean Computer Campaign [www.svtc.org], the average...

PROTEDYNE STANDARDIZES ON ADEPT CONTROLS FOR BIOCUBE/CILA.
Adept Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq:ADTK), San Jose, Calif., a leading manufacturer of flexible automation for the fiber optic, telecommunications and semiconductor industries, has announced that Protedyne of Ashland, Massachusetts, a leading solutions provider for genome-based drug discovery systems, has standardized on Adept controls, including Adept controllers, AdeptVision(TM) and AIM(TM) software...

Bush to states: drop dead: the economic crisis trickles down. (Of Several Minds).
The Pacific Northwest is known for Microsoft, Intel, lattes, breathtaking natural beauty, alternative music, rain, stock-option millionaires, and the Seattle Mariners' star outfielder, Ichiro Suzuki. Americans do not associate this forward-looking, entrepreneurial region with economic distress. So it comes as a surprise to discover that among the...

Japan-U.S. trade war?
Introduction There will be no trade war. For over a decade, Japan has been the No. 1 overseas market for the United States. The U.S. is Japan's largest wading partner. Japanese suppliers provide many of the most important components for Cray computers, and to firms such as Apple, DEC,...

A. Rodger Denison competition--undergraduate division. (Collegiate Communications--Undergraduate).
Judges -- Ron Jyring, Bismarck State University Anne Gerber, University of North Dakota 8:20 Welcome and Overview 8:30 "Glucose regulates pancreatic preprosomatostatin I expression." Gregory T. Melroe *, Melissa M. Ehrman, Jeffrey D. Kittilson, and Mark A. Sheridan, North Dakota State University. 8:50 "Low alpha lead and...

Clean and green.
THE WORLD WOULD BE A GREENER place if we derived all the chemicals our industries need from plants. These so-called agrochemicals are generally biodegradable and far less toxic than chemicals derived from oil (petrochemicals), and they are renewable, which means we'd never run out. Unfortunately, agrochemicals cost too much to...

A letter to a shareholder.
"Choosing a Board of Directors based on race and gender is a lousy way to run a company. Cypress will never do it." Editor's Note: The following article is the letter that was sent earlier this year by T.J. Rodgers to one of the company's institutional shareholders. It engendered...

The Board Book.
Published by AMACOM, New York, 320 pages, $35.00 SUSAN SHULTZ has undertaken a noble task in attempting to set down some of the more important considerations in creating, maintaining, or otherwise dealing with corporate boards. Her book is filled with a great deal of interesting anecdotal information...