Word: high-tech
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Even now you can get an awfully cushy ride--on one of the new high-tech recumbents, which are suddenly taking off in popularity. On this baby, you ride low, spine against a backrest, legs raised to pedal. It does take some getting used to, though, because you depend more on your leg muscles, and the steering and balance can be a bit tricky at first. Recumbent fans swear these roadsters can eliminate every physical obstacle to cycling, from neck pain to sciatica. They're also easier to pedal, Dr. Mirkin explains, because they use the higher, more muscular section...
...Dreier changed his mind about the role of immigrants in this country? Absolutely not. He sees no contradiction--indeed no relationship at all--between his immigration positions and his effort to increase visas for high-tech guest workers. "It's a skilled-workforce bill, not an immigration bill," he says...
...immigrant kids in public schools. "We are trying to decrease the magnet which draws people illegally into this country," said Dreier, a Republican then known as an immigration hard-liner. Now, however, Dreier is just as emphatically championing his bill to bring more foreigners into the U.S. to do high-tech jobs. "Without these professionals, the prosperity we are enjoying today will be threatened," he says...
...parties for who has an advantage with new money and who has an advantage with new voters." In the end, Congress will probably approve more visas. But it won't be pretty. Says a frustrated G.O.P. aide: "This is no longer about a narrow economic issue that the high-tech guys think is important, but a political football. It reeks of partisan gamesmanship...
...Certainly, Europe's politicians and business leaders aren't complaining about Monti's moves against the high-tech mergers. To a continent still following America's lead on all things connected (except for cell phones), the threat of WorldCom or AOL owning too much of Europe's Internet plumbing is practically a matter of national security, or at least of national pride. It's worse than McDonald's, Coke and Nike all rolled into one, because even the Europeans know that high-tech telecom is the future of the world economy, and they're determined that globalization not mean - sacre...