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Parse the language and it means many banks have a new sideline: gambling. "Derivatives have turned the financial markets into a hi-tech, international, 24-hour casino," notes Richard Thomson, a former merchant banker and author of a book published in London, Apocalypse Roulette: The Lethal World of Derivatives. "Right now you have a small number of banks sharing a very large risk. But this could turn out to be a serious problem if these banks are in the wrong place at the wrong time...
...areas of Cambridge and Boston attract more hi-tech companies (particularly in the bio-tech industries), the percentages of blue-collar workers and families as a total percentage in the district have been declining...
Sure, you may not be able to spring for an in-home virtual reality set, or one of IBM's new Internet-enabled minivans, but there is a treasure of affordable hi-tech gizmos, hardware and software on the market this year...
Harbury, who has filed civil rights suits against Guatemala, the CIA, the State Department and the National Security Council, said she still receives death threats. "Now they've gone hi-tech and send [threats] by e-mail...
...students like Mr. Bloodworth and Ms. Clarke with their preference for Black-solidarist cathartic activism, I persist in articulating to such Black students here at Harvard College what I believe to be a more viable mode of Black-individual and Black-group metamorphosis in our complex post-Capitalist (e.g., Hi-Tech Capitalist, Global Capitalist, etc.) era. Namely--translate your strong cathartic appetite into a strong outreach-to-Black-poor ethos; into an activist healing-hand value orientation that focuses on the manifold crises of cultural life and societal life among our African-American poor (e.g., male violence against women, male...