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The article reports that stores in New York City were found in December to be selling "Chronic Candy," a lollipop that tastes like marijuana. The city moved to ban the candy, but now the fight has shifted to Florida, where consumers are starting to notice the product in their stores. There are no illegal substances involved, but parents are furious nonetheless. The screening of incoming parcels in an X-ray chamber before being delivered to the colleague it is addressed to has exposed some astonishing contents. Among the non-business items received recently have been small trees and plants, TV and hi-fi equipment, bicycles, electrical items and even a vibrating sex toy.

Reports on the use of high-energy x-rays in a new lithographic technique developed by the US Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York and the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Fabrication of large mechanical components with the precision of micromachines; Use of ultraviolet light or low-energy x-rays in the lithographic fabrication of micromachines.