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Employees on the go say jump drives--such as SanDisk's Cruzer Titanium, which costs $129.99--make it easier to share big projects with co-workers when e-mail isn't readily available. Other consultants eschew carrying a laptop altogether, navigating airports (and security) with nothing but high-tech pendants dangling from their necks. --By Paige Bowers
...school laboratory lumped under the sprawling U.S. Department of Agriculture, ARS keeps pumping out high-tech solutions to a broad array of problems, ranging from the urgent (how to eradicate plant and animal diseases) to the less pressing (how to duplicate the tangy taste of San Francisco's sourdough bread outside the Bay Area). Along the way, the agency has won numerous patents for breakthrough mechanisms, like the one pending for turning peanut shells into hydrogen fuel and another for harnessing chicken manure to remove metals from polluted water...
APPLICATIONS: Retailers could lure shoppers with interactive window displays. Airports might offer visually aided instructions and directions throughout terminals. In a lab or office, collaborators might use it like a high-tech dry-erase board that displays Excel spreadsheets and other interactive material...
Greenspan, a former jazz musician (he played clarinet and sax) and a disciple of free-market philosopher Ayn Rand, frequently confronts such agonizing choices. As the Clinton era drew to a close, he correctly foresaw the brewing bubble in high-tech stocks. He searched for a way to alert investors, famously referring to an "irrational exuberance" building up in the stock market. But he refused to say more, believing a sudden collapse in share prices would carry more risk than allowing the market to discover the bubble itself. The high-tech balloon continued to inflate for several years after...
Goeglein—busy courting the conservative votes that are a “top political priority” for President Bush—is being paid with taxpayers’ money. In fact, taxpayer dollars are also funding parallel White House ambassadors to big business, Jewish groups, high-tech companies and others. And while the president’s press secretaries will claim that this sort of outreach strengthens public policy, the line between their government responsibilities and the goals of the Bush-Cheney re-election campaign is obviously blurred...