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According to the laws of Mother Nature, electricity follows the path of least resistance. Mother apparently hasn't been hanging around California recently, where last week rolling blackouts spread darkness at noon across some of the richest cropland, most complex high-tech factories and busiest streets in America...
...first study - both reports appeared in the February issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology - tried to quantify the risk from pediatric CAT scans. CAT is a high-tech tool that uses multiple X-ray images to create 3-D views of a patient's internal organs. CAT scans clearly help doctors diagnose and treat disease, but as two recent studies suggest, the radiation dose they deliver also poses risks, especially for children and particularly since the use of CAT scans to diagnose appendicitis, for example, has become so widespread...
FULL-BODY SCAN This is the Cadillac of high-tech testing. Using a technology known as electron-beam computed tomography, radiologists take detailed internal pictures from the shoulders to the pelvis. The whole thing takes 10 minutes and provides such information as how much unwanted calcium has collected in your coronary arteries, whether there is an abnormal growth in your liver or colon or whether your bones are showing early signs of osteoporosis. Cost: $500 to $725, little of which your insurer is likely to reimburse...
Being located in a Web-crazed country did not prevent shares of South Korea's Internet companies from plummeting after the global dotcom bubble burst last spring. (The country's high-tech kosdaq stock exchange has tumbled 80% since its peak in March--steeper than nasdaq's fall.) But that hasn't shattered South Korean faith in the New Economy. Info tech still accounts for more than 10% of the $400 billion economy, and that percentage must grow further if the country is to continue its economic climb. With its labor now expensive in international terms, and with few natural...
...Bill Gates wants you to hold off buying that PlayStation2. Microsoft's Xbox game console won't arrive for 10 months, but developers are already promising their popular game franchises, including Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, Oddworld and WWF Raw Is War. The demos look great, but the high-tech hardware still doesn't fit into the cool case that debuted last week at CES in Las Vegas...