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...proponents have used myths to promote it in state legislatures; they say that UCITA will bring in high-tech businesses, that it is necessary to prevent software piracy, and that it will promote legal certainty. But industry experts say an educated workforce is the key to drawing high-tech businesses. Piracy is already subject to stiff civil and criminal penalties. And far from creating certainty, UCITA will increase tensions between high tech producers and customers, adding legal planning and litigation costs. Consumers will not benefit from this law: the only clear winners will be lawyers...
...mother, an executive at a high-tech consulting firm, sees her daughter's isolation in very different terms from the way it's portrayed in the book. "I thought Katie just wanted to be aloof and more independent," she says, denying any blame on her part. As Tarbox writes, however, "Every girl says she is doing fine. But if you just spend the time, you might hear the rest of the story." Only Kufrovich, it seems, was willing to do that...
...Beacon is a 61-room hotel built by Boston developer Paul Roiff. It aims at the young digerati who jet between high-tech start-ups on both coasts. Rooms have three phone lines, high-speed Internet access, 330-thread-count Italian sheets and lots of mahogany. "There isn't a square of vinyl in the entire hotel," boasts general manager William Sander. Recent guests include film director Wes Craven, Viacom potentate Sumner Redstone and sundry chairmen of American and European banks. Rates start at $395 a night...
IMMIGRANTS Silicon Valley and other high-tech employers are bringing into the U.S. 115,000 computer programmers, engineers, scientists and the like each year under H1-B visas (these allow people with special skills that the economy needs to enter the U.S. outside regular immigration quotas). But employers insist they need more, and bills are moving through Congress to raise the limit to as many as 195,000. Among others, roughly half of all recent alumni of the six-campus Indian Institute of Technology are said to be working in the U.S., including Harmanjit Singh and about 24 others from...
Rest assured, however. The government intends to step up scrutiny on this controversial area of science. Yesterday, the Clinton administration announced new regulations by the Food and Drug Administration to test the use of these high-tech foods. By and large, these measures are designed less to scrutinize these products than they are to assuage the fears of a growing percentage of the population...