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Feel cramped in your SUV? Relief is at hand in the eight-ton, 9-ft.-tall MaxiMog Global Expedition Vehicle, designed by Bran Ferren, and now featured in the high-tech "Workspheres" exhibit at New York City's Museum of Modern Art. Crafted of stainless steel on a modified Mercedes-Benz Unimog truck chassis, the MaxiMog has a 360-h.p. engine. The vehicle is street-legal in the U.S. and Europe, yet it can ford a 6-ft.-deep stream and climb a 45[degree] slope. For a mere $500,000 to $800,000, you can order a customized Maximog...
CYPRESS SEMICONDUCTOR makes chips for mobile phones; telecom equipment; Internet hardware. "Cypress has the most high-tech sound with 'cy.' A tree known for its longevity...
Helping push for the free-trade area are America's high-tech firms. "Five hundred million people live south of Texas, but only 100 million of them have phones in their homes, and only 17 million have personal computers," says Michael Maibach, a vice president at chipmaker Intel. One reason: tariffs on computer and telecom equipment range as high as 30% in some Latin American countries. Telephone regulations also keep Internet fees high. Phone companies like BellSouth and WorldCom are eager to expand in the Latin American market. Bell Canada International works in Mexico and four South American countries...
More than 124,700 white people moved further out into the "high-tech corridor" along I-495, an area that is almost 93 percent white...
...That pretty much sums up Russia's predicament. It has a huge pool of scientists and engineers, and the per capita number of patents issued there is nearly three-quarters that of the U.S. Yet Russia's global share of the high-tech market is around 0.3%; America's is 130 times higher. Russia has to fix lots of things for that imbalance to change. Among them: its weak enforcement of intellectual property laws, onerous business registration procedures and strict controls on the export of hard currency. Also, Russian entrepreneurs lack the business basics...