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...right, but that doesn't diminish the significance of the Masdar Initiative and its high-tech approach. Environmentalists are slowly realizing that a policy of regulation--so successful in combatting past pollution problems like acid rain--simply won't be enough for global warming. The scale of the climate crisis is too vast, and the world's growth too rapid. What's needed is technological innovation, green solutions as yet undreamt of, to utterly remake the way people use energy. Masdar's crash greening may be the future. "This is real, and it shows that they are thinking ahead...
...Real Doll You may have a few other questions, most of them beginning, Why? Why would zillionaires rent human-bot experts and escorts from a high-tech flesh peddler when they could hire the real thing? Why would someone develop an amazing technology and find no more remunerative application for it than an illegal outfit that seems exorbitant to maintain and nearly impossible to conceal? And why--as eventually develops--would someone begin an equally elaborate counterconspiracy to sabotage the group...
...DRAM companies through difficult times," Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou reportedly told electronics industry executives in early January. Aid is crucial, policymakers believe, because Taiwan's chipmakers are simply too important to the economy, which specializes in manufacturing gear like notebook PCs. "It's bad for the whole high-tech industry here if the DRAM industry fails," says Lu Cheng-chin, an official at the industrial development bureau at Taipei's Ministry of Economic Affairs...
...additional $2.2 billion injection was needed the next day to calm the market. (The prosecution itself has not elaborated on the charges facing Park; and the Ministry of Strategy and Finance says it never made such a declaration to the prosecutors.) (See pictures of South Korea's high-stakes, high-tech gaming culture...
...That won't erase the uneasiness permeating the high-tech park. Some companies are cutting bonuses, which can amount to more than 40% of workers' pay; when reduced work hours are factored in, some employees are suffering pay cuts of up to 50%. And despite efforts to keep staff on payrolls, the number of layoffs at Hsinchu tripled last year, to 4,400, compared with layoffs in 2007. "Everyone's insecure about their future," says a saleswoman at United Microelectronics Corp. (UMC), who requested anonymity. "I came to Hsinchu 10 years ago for the money. Everyone felt this industry...