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Critical Care tells the story of Dr. Werner Ernst (a groggy James Spader) a young gun working in an ultra high-tech intensive care unit who's looking to make it big. That is, he's looking to get rich and sleep with as many women as possible on the way up. Ernst spends his days tending to patients whose state of health runs the gamut from vegetative to permanently comatose-a foreshadowing of the film's extremely limited scope. His one patient who is actually conscious is a terminally ill dialysis case (played with stunning grace by Jeffery Wright...
...recovered, the Dow fell an additional 132.36 points, unable to take comfort in the good news. In New York City, out-of-favor issues ranged from big airlines with Pacific routes, like American and United, to consumer-product companies like Coca-Cola. Semiconductor stocks took a beating, along with high-tech giants like IBM and Hewlett-Packard, which earns 16% of its revenues from the region...
...them. "I'm not an ideologue or a crusader," he says. "Our principle is that any consumer should have a choice in what he chooses to buy. But that's not the case when [computer makers must] automatically add Microsoft's Internet browser." Nor does Klein feel overmatched on high-tech issues. "I'm online," he says. "I know what a browser...
...units gathered in this stunning setting are devoted to an art collection, ambitious archival facilities, high-tech conservation, broad research and educational programs, all intended to serve as a sort of cultural condenser for the humanities in Los Angeles and beyond. There is the Getty Grant Program, which has given out some $63 million since 1984 to support worldwide research in the history and conservation of art--projects ranging from computer-aided studies and reconstructions of half-effaced 8th century Mayan murals to the conservation of monastery temples in Nepal...
...video violence and sex. Still unclear is what Net broadcasts could be affected. The idea alarms free-speech advocates, who wonder why Americans need a Net-nanny. "What you get is a devolution of the First Amendment," argues lawyer Bob Corn-Revere. FCC chairman REED HUNDT says the high-tech industry can "be part of the process" as the agency sets rules. There's a low-tech alternative: the off switch...