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...level, you can hardly blame the major party candidates. The shoppers, the commuters, the high-tech employees and, yes, the soccer moms--they are registered voters, likely to vote but unsure for whom. They may be fickle, but they have influence too; not quite like the AARP and its waving fields of gray, but a powerful constituency nonetheless. It's why Medicare, prescription drug importation and income tax credits fill the candidates' speeches, even when they are held in school auditoriums and on city streets...

Author: By Adam I. Arenson, | Title: Getting the Vote of the People | 9/29/2000 | See Source »

...Intel, see, is the bluest of the blue-chip tech stocks, considered the sector's best indicator of where the overall high-tech winds are blowing. It's a member of the Dow, NASDAQ and the S&P, which is the practical reason why Wall Street's trio of indexes all tanked on the news. But the spiritual malaise is just as contagious; Microsoft, Dell and Cisco all took overnight hits as well. Intel's announcement also comes early in a third-quarter earnings season that investors are nervous enough about already. Bad earnings news revives fears that Greenspan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Al Is Hoping Intel's Flu Isn't Contagious | 9/22/2000 | See Source »

...Pennsylvania and Wisconsin have all instituted similar "specialty" court divisions. And Maryland's governor has formulated a study group called the Business and Technology Division Task Force, whose sole responsibility is to determine whether or not the state court system should be reorganized to include a special circuit of "high-tech" courts...

Author: By Alixandra E. Smith, | Title: No Need for High-Tech Courts | 9/19/2000 | See Source »

Right now Turkle is especially intrigued by the complex interactions children have with Furbies, the fuzzy high-tech toys that speak (in "Furbish"), learn words that are spoken to it and respond to being held. Is "Furby love" different from "human love," she wants to know--and how? The hardware Turkle cares about is humanity's own hard drive. "The question for me isn't what the computer does," she says, "but what the computer does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Margaret Mead In Cyberspace | 9/18/2000 | See Source »

...create 10 million new high-tech jobs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign Pledge Drive: Week 15 | 9/18/2000 | See Source »

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