Description: Sears cuts prices to make up for slow start of Christmas retail season. Shoppers. Sale signs. Woman writes check. Laser gun scans price tag at cash register. Store entrance.
Description: Cold fusion experiments of two years ago, received skeptically then, are now reconsidered in two books: one granting credence, the other doubting. Laboratory.
Description: Ubiquitous computers in offices cause repetitive strain injuries from constant keyboard use and poor posture. Many computer users and screens. Keyboard clicks sound effects.
Description: Canned food is packed for Kurdish refugees; aid is mobilized for Bangladesh cyclone victims. Yet, public has compassion fatigue in multiple disasters. John Hammock of Oxfam on African famine relief effort.
Description: Recent failures in technology and science include Hubble telescope and space shuttle problems, cold fusion experiments, biomedical fraud. Researchers pressured by competition + demand for grand results.
Description: Family Foodland supermarket serves Mattapan with large, clean, well-stocked store, including ethnic foods, while other grocery chains have closed in the inner city.
Description: Gloucester salt marshes and undeveloped land need stronger conservation protection than afforded by wetlands statute. Scenes of Gloucester water, boats, houses, open space.