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...Texas capital of Austin, the hub of a section of the Lone Star State that is studded with 500 software companies and 1,000 high-tech manufacturers such as IBM and South Korea's Samsung. (The electronics giant broke ground last year on a $1.3 billion semiconductor plant with a Texas-size rodeo and hoedown.) Such employers are looking to hire 15,000 people this year, notably experienced programmers and top-level managers. Entry-level slots are also available: high school grads with some technical training can pull down $26,000 to $28,000 a year as technicians at semiconductor...
...himself treading on ground that turned to quicksand for Newt Gingrich a year ago. Aides confirmed today that the President proposes to pare $100 billion over five years from Medicare and Medicaid by cutting reimbursements to hospitals, HMOs and doctors. Under the President's plan, spending for the two giant health care programs, which cover 75 million poor, disabled and elderly Americans, would not be allowed to grow faster than about 5 percent annually. "Clinton has to hit these big ticket items if he has any realistic chance of balancing the budget," says TIME Washington correspondent Jef McAllister. "Since Medicaid...
SEOUL, South Korea: Hardly dampened by a holiday break, strikes in South Korea continued Tuesday--and may even be broadening. Ignoring President Kim Young-sam's plea for labor peace, broadcasting employees at the giant state-run KBS and three other private TV and radio stations walked out Tuesday. They were joined by some 3,000 nurses and other unionized workers at 24 hospitals who rejoined the protests after ending their first round of walkouts a week ago. The outlawed Confederation of Trade Unions, which is organizing the protests, continues to disagree with the Labor Ministry on walkout totals...
...DOLE There's no place like home, but he'll lose his in Russell, Kansas, to a giant twister. --Shawn Robbins...
...technology is a form of life. Strange as this sounds, it is an increasingly common refrain in cyberculture. If the idea is valid--if indeed fiber optics are living tissue--then it is easier to think of Earth in the Age of Internet as a coherent living system, a giant organism complete with a giant brain. Gaia with a high...