Word: high-tech
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...front of a peristyle hall whose high masonry walls are inset with false windows. This entrance hall in turn opens onto a vast ovoid, some 300 ft. across, that formed the sanctuary itself. The ovoid is enclosed by a thick, curving wall of limestone blocks covered with inscriptions, some of which are more than 40 ft. long. The AFSM team believes the remains of the wall, along with additional inscriptions, extend more than 30 ft. beneath the sand, and it is exploring the site using ground-penetrating radar and other high-tech tools...
WHAT HAPPENED: Simply, the high-tech boom went bust. After five years of astonishing growth, fueled by an irrationally exuberant stock market that showered money on everything to do with the Internet, both businesses and consumers decided they had all the gizmos they needed. That left companies with massive amounts of inventory on their shelves. The downturn then began to spread to the rest of the manufacturing segment, such as autos. High levels of household debt--all those credit cards and home-equity loans--don't help...
...destination for U.S. firms outsourcing manufacturing). But globalization, it turns out, has a reverse gear. Once it was plain--by last winter--that technology firms had vastly overestimated demand, the consequent retrenchment spread far beyond the Bay Area. Last week, for example, Baltimore Technologies, the jewel in Ireland's high-tech sector, slashed jobs in an effort to achieve profitability...
Think of them as Big Mother. Though they don't actually practice medicine, companies like American Healthways use the Internet and other high-tech equipment to keep track of your vital statistics and your treatment, reminding you to take your medicine or schedule a follow-up exam with the doctor. On rare occasions, and at the last minute, they might even drive you to, say, a dialysis clinic if no other options are available...
...This "part inventor, part craftsman," as Pantelic describes himself, is typical of those who follow in this report, for which a score of correspondents and another dozen photographers fanned out across Europe to discover how the guildhall has met high-tech. At Waterford Crystal in Ireland, for example, each piece of glassware still passes through up to 40 pairs of hands, and master cutter Jim O'Shea still keeps about 400 designs in his head. But today, the chance of a flawed piece of glassware leaving Waterford is less likely than ever: a modern quality-control system flags any defect...