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After 21 years at its cramped and leaky 29 Garden St. location, HUPD employees settled into their new high-tech offices yesterday on the sixth floor of 1033 Mass. Ave. It is a move many praised...
Surprising new products pop up all the time at high-tech trade shows. But at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last month, one was particularly shocking. Volunteers by the dozen lined up at the Taser International booth for a chance to get blasted with 50,000 volts from the company's newest stun gun. "It felt like I got hit by lightning 100 times," said Jeremy Friedbaum, 46, of Provo, Utah...
...make jobs for our kids and grandkids. It is clear we will have to attract many new faces to Utah to do that." The old mainstays of Utah's economy-agriculture, mining and military bases-are in decline, so the state has aggressively shifted its energies toward developing high-tech industries, and needs imported experts...
...slice of pizza or dance in a nightclub - that has made every single day a roll of the dice with death. Carnage on the streets has become a daily affair, and an economy that boomed in the 1990s has ground to a halt (a downturn sparked by the global high-tech blowout, but exacerbated by the crisis in confidence). Tourism is down by half, and likely to fall further. Why would the tourists visit when even some of the locals are starting to mutter publicly about wanting to leave...
Stoiber, who has ruled Bavaria since 1993, has some powerful credentials to use against Schröder, particularly on the economy. Unemployment in Bavaria, at 5.8%, is the lowest in Germany, and Stoiber has implemented a decidedly unconservative industrial policy that has lured many high-tech start-ups with promises of government subsidies. As a demonstration of how vulnerable the Social Democrats are on the economic front, last week Schröder said he planned to introduce short-term measures like subsidies designed to create low-paying jobs in a hurry...