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Howard Boggess, 64, a Crow historian, attended one of these parlays. Boggess, who is legally blind but can read and write with high-tech assistance, describes hearing a clash of many tongues. An Arapahoe elder offered a short prayer and invoked the valley's "sacredness." The Anschutz executives, as Boggess recalls, invoked their legal rights and complained about media coverage. The Indians too were worried about coverage because they feared revealing too much about their cherished valley. But when their letters to Denver and Washington went unanswered, they went public...
...that killed 17 American sailors on the U.S.S. Cole in Yemen, FBI agents assigned to the case touched down in the port city of Aden--and started to wait. For several hours the agents sat on their plane while the Yemenis searched through their luggage, itemizing every piece of high-tech equipment the gumshoes were bringing in. It was downhill from there. When they finally arrived at the Hotel Movenpick, where they would bunk three or four sweaty bodies to a room, they realized nobody had enough cash. They had taken off so fast few had got to the bank...
More than 4,000 Americans on any given day are waiting for a heart transplant. Because of a shortage of donors, about a third of them will die before a suitable replacement can be found. So when surgeons in Louisville, Ky., sewed a high-tech artificial heart into a desperately ill man last week, it seemed like the answer to a lot of prayers. The patient, whose name has not been released, is described as a diabetic in his mid to late 50s who developed congestive heart failure after suffering several heart attacks. If he survives and his health improves...
Since 1998, wind power has been the fastest-growing new source of electricity in the world, expanding an average of 30% a year. Sales of photovoltaic panels (also known as solar cells), which convert the sun's energy directly into electricity, grew by 37% last year. At high-tech companies and hospitals, executives with a special concern about power disruptions are looking at fuel cells to supply clean and reliable power on site (albeit at prices that currently remain higher on average than those charged by the big utilities...
Wednesday, the President will meet with high-tech leaders to talk about how he can win passage of permanent trade authority in Congress. Have you started nodding off yet? Or are you pounding your fist? Discussions of trade authority tend to either make the lids heavy (don?t talk about it while operating a belt sander) or enrage those who think opening foreign markets means losing American jobs...