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...shouted down by fellow Republicans, structural change like this is inevitable and recurring. It's just that the transition can be ugly. New England was a textile center until that business went south, to the Carolinas, then east, to China. Software supplanted steel in Pittsburgh, Pa. In both places, high-tech companies later occupied some of the old mill buildings. Now some of those companies' programmers have gone the way of loom operators and steel rollers...
...flood of new businesses and employees. Major players like IBM, Oracle and Intel are here, as are promising start-ups. At Sony World and Bose, techies are landing lucrative service gigs. It may sound like yesterday's Silicon Valley, but it's very much the present--in the high-tech mecca of Bangalore...
...talking pictures, Hollywood has reigned supreme. That global domination of the $52 billion cinema industry now relies on a vicious economic cycle: as the cost of filmmaking rises, studios balance the checkbook by casting their nets wider, showing their films in more countries to more paying customers; movies become high-tech spectacles and stars demand higher salaries; and so the cost of filmmaking rises, and the cycle begins anew. Europe's industry - with its dependence on dubbing or subtitling for foreign audiences, its vastly differing cultural tones (what makes the French laugh is often lost on the Germans...
...scenes in collecting and preserving its coveted collection. Film reels age very poorly, undergoing wear and tear from repeated play and chemical decomposition over time. Under the auspices of conservator Julie A. Buck, the HFA has been restoring thousands of prints, repairing and cleaning severely damaged reels with high-tech equipment in its Watertown facility...
Delay Takes Its Toll Made in Germany " no longer appears to be a label of engineering excellence. Last week, German Transport Minister Manfred Stolpe canceled the government's €5.4 billion contract for a high-tech motorway toll scheme for trucks after the system operator, Toll Collect, failed to solve technical problems with the trucks' onboard GPS units. The decision to abandon the ill-fated venture - it was scheduled to start in August 2003 before being postponed - is an embarrassment for the top players behind it. Deutsche Telekom and DaimlerChrysler had banked on the system as a possible export. Since...