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...Rush--a dapper, manic teacher who claims he understands absolutely nothing about wireless technology--leads his students through a brisk review before an exam, pulling images of Greek urns off the Metropolitan Museum of Art's website. He makes extensive use of what's called a Smart Board, a high-tech blackboard that throws a giant version of Rush's laptop screen on the wall. It's touch-sensitive, so he can point and click on the board with his hand, navigating from urn to urn, zooming in on images when he wants to highlight a detail. He even uses...
...threat of invasion by intelligent, high-tech aliens is not one to lose sleep over. Why would aliens even want our Earth? One of the few things we have learned about planets is that they are complex individuals—no two will be exactly alike. Aliens will surely be better adapted to their own planets, and it is highly unlikely that they will be able to breathe our air or infect us, let alone eat us—at least not without some expensive and messy food processing. As entertaining as “War of the Worlds?...
Harvard webmail, once praised for its high-tech “SpamAssassin” tool that purged virtually all spam from students’ e-mail accounts, has now been pegged as a distributor of spam itself...
INSIDE FOOD LABS Tour the high-tech kitchens where scientists create the food-like substances you'll be savoring tomorrow...
...Injured. N. Chandrababu Naidu, 53, Chief Minister of the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh; when mines buried in a road detonated beneath his bulletproof car; in Tirumala, Andhra Pradesh, India. Widely respected for his drive to develop the state capital Hyderabad into a high-tech hub, Naidu is a target for left-wing guerrillas operating in his state. He was treated for nose, chest and shoulder injuries...