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...High-tech surveillance can do little to track adversaries like the Sept. 11 hijackers, especially if they are in the U.S. legally and careful about what they say on the phone. So why does the CIA persist in spying the wrong way? Part of the answer lies in the culture of secrecy that arose during the cold war and continues to rule the agency's hearts and minds. Today the secrets the CIA needs to pick up are often easily accessible--such as the travel plans of the Sept. 11 hijackers, two of whom managed to pay for their airline...
...defiance had electrified Lowell, Mass., the Catholic city from which my Catholic family hails. Lowell was America's first planned industrial city in the 19th century. It collapsed when the mills closed, then was brought back to life again in the 1970s when high-tech Wang Laboratories came to town, along with many low-wage Asian immigrants. Now it is wrestling with its identity; it has landed a minor league ball club and a new park, but nothing yet has rescued its old working class. Throughout its upheavals, Lowell has often been steered by the church and, in at least...
...bottom of America's electronics wastebasket lies the township of Guiyu. The cluster of villages in southern China's Guangdong province is a dumping ground for mountains of scrapped computers and high-tech appliances, the detritus of a digital revolution going on an ocean away. Blue Dongfeng trucks with heaving loads of broken hardware dominate the roads and kick dust into the faces of the bicycle-cart drivers, their own cargo of tangled wires swaying with each turn. Atop a riverbank junk heap near the Meizhou bridge, a piece of cardboard flutters in the breeze?printed on it are keystroke...
...consumers are creating companies. Domestic spending is helping make the Korean business sector more diverse, by spawning start-up enterprises in the technology and service industries. High-tech alone now contributes 15% of GDP, up from less than 8% in 1997. For a quick tour of the new economic landscape, log on to the Internet and check out www.freechal.com. One of the Web portal's hottest products are avatars, digital cartoon characters that stand in for real people in Internet chat rooms. Freechal started charging for avatars last June. Already the company has captured some 110,000 Korean customers...
Lang said she is already working to blend hypnosis with some of today’s most complex and high-tech procedures...