Word: high-tech
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...shriek at a fruit bat flying over your head, you may wonder whether you are still in Zurich. And that's how the zoo's director, Alex Rübel, intended it. Opened in June 2003, after a decade of planning and construction, the j33.5 million project boasts such high-tech features as light-sensitive roof foil that maintains high temperature and humidity, a waterfall and man-made rain from sprinklers pouring up to 80,000 liters of water a day. Some 17,000 species of plants and 2,500 trees were brought in from Madagascar...
...sleek, superfast monorail propelled from Springfield to Boston by powerful electromagnets. Commuters would still commute on either side in the familiar car lanes, but they would be the main event no longer—the median’s proud iron steed would have stolen their thunder. A high-tech, vaguely Blade Runner-flavored cream center would have at last filled the transportational Twinkie that is the Pike...
...Mountain View, Calif., previously the offices of former Silicon Valley golden boy (and current Silicon Valley crater) Silicon Graphics. Early next year Google is expected to offer stock to the public, an IPO that should raise something like $2 billion in cash. That would make it the largest high-tech IPO ever. The company as a whole could be valued as high as $20 billion after the sale...
...against terrorism - not because anyone supposes that from some rural fastness he is dictating strategies and tactics on the latest terrorist outrages, but because he remains a potent symbol of defiance. The capture of Saddam helps, but so long as bin Laden remains at large, all the power and high-tech wizardry of the American armed forces are still losing the battle that is most important in the Islamic world - the struggle to convince ordinary Muslims that those who espouse terror and oppose liberal, modern social developments are bound, eventually, to lose...
...some 39,000 asylum seekers have entered the country so far this year, according to the U.N. - a number that dwarfs the 15,360 jobs offered to non-E.U. computer experts since Germany launched its "green card" system in 2000 - a program designed to help companies fill vacant high-tech jobs with skilled labor from overseas. Countries are beginning to collaborate to regulate the flow. The Spanish and Moroccan governments announced last week that they would launch joint marine patrols to head off illegal immigration. The E.U. has begun negotiations with 11 countries to give them a guaranteed legal...