21.   Richard Price, an Overland Park physician and cosmetic surgeon, says the laser is more predictably uniform than chemical peels or dermabrasion.

22.   Scientists say it will be three to five years before the blue lasers are ready for commercial use.

23.   Space-based lasers also are a possibility for the anti-missile system.

24.   Still, others maintain fewer people will be treated because there is no insurance coverage and the Summit laser is expensive to opthalmologists.

25.   That depends on whether the next news out on Ion Laser and its teeth-whitening lasers is positive or negative, he said.

26.   The chemically powered lasers were one of the earliest technologies proposed for shooting down missiles in space under the Star Wars program.

27.   The experimental laser is to be tested over the following three years against dummy ballistic missiles.

28.   The laser was too quick.

29.   The laser is about as powerful as the one at grocery store checkouts.

30.   The new lasers are smaller, cheaper and more powerful, the filing said.