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...places, the reports fit together like jigsaw puzzles. For example, Michigan had a larger than average decrease in median income, yet had fewer people below the poverty line. Frank Stafford, a University of Michigan economist, explains that workers in that state's high-tech sector took a disproportionately serious hit. That would tend to affect those in middle-income brackets more than low-income workers...
...crime-in-new-bottles strategy owes a lot to the forensics hit CSI, which uses high-tech camera tricks to underscore its theme of better crime fighting through science. Its spin-off, CSI: Miami (CBS, Mondays, 10 p.m. E.T.), likewise offers stylish flashback scenes, overexposed with flashbulb-like bursts of light, and special effects that take us on a Fantastic Voyage--style journey inside pieces of evidence. The setup is similar enough to satisfy CSI fans, but the few variations are missteps, especially the grim performances and the broadly telegraphed sexual tension between leads David Caruso and Kim Delaney. Still...
...Lehmann Brothers. Are our faculty urging Harvard to pull its funds away from the infamous “Cheeseburger of Death to Palestinians” project? Or is their “political” position an effort to divest from Israel’s banks, medical companies, high-tech industry, economy and people...
...largest-ever investments in Indonesia, state-owned Pertamina and British Petroleum signed an $8.5 billion deal to open a gas field for China. INDICATORS New Course For The Bourse Europe's market landscape is about to be transformed. Next year Deutsche Börse will close the Neuer Markt high-tech exchange, which has fallen 96% from its peak value. Other small exchanges may follow when the E.U. announces new market regulations in November. The rules, which will favor large exchanges and could save investors €15 billion a year, will create a single E.U. market for trading securities, harmonize...
...Terror: Jemaah Islamiya Lives China: P.L.A. Goes High-tech...