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...mayoral race widely seen as a struggle for the soul of Jerusalem, Nir Barkat, a secular, high-tech multi-millionaire and ex-paratrooper, defeated Meir Porush, candidate of the city's large, ultra-orthodox Jewish community...
Medical procedures, for instance, rack up massive energy tabs - especially surgeries, emergency services and pathology laboratory tests. "Enormous amounts of energy are required to build and run high-tech systems in common use - MRIs, CT scans, etc. - with many running 24 hours a day," says Pamela Gray, a trustee of the Transition Network, a U.K.-based organization that supports community-level initiatives to improve sustainability and combat climate change. Further, nearly all pharmaceuticals are made from petroleum derivatives, and so are medical materials (think rubber gloves and intravenous tubing). And then there's transportation: transferring equipment, supplies and lab samples...
...list of top Web 2.0 companies in search of software engineers, developers, open source technicians and other savvy staffers. Among the blue-chip companies hiring en masse are Facebook, Samsung, Intel and Research in Motion, the makers of the Blackberry. But it's also possible to flourish at high-tech companies without being, well, high-tech. "If you're in the sales side of technology, that's a pretty good place to be," Hoagland says. "Until we find bottom, what [companies] are going to be focused on is short-term stuff. It's sales and marketing...
...Carmat, a new $9.2 million firm that will build and eventually market the heart. Carmat (for Carpentier and Matra) is backed by EADS and a Paris-based private equity firm called Truffle Capital, plus $33 million from a French agency funding innovation. If the marriage of cardiac research and high-tech avionics sounds quirky to some, Carpentier says it's a natural match - the durability of his artificial heart depends on some of the same materials and technologies that keep planes in the sky for thousands of high-stress hours...
...important factor separating drivers: money. McLaren, for which Hamilton drives, lavished an estimated $430 million on its campaign, according to industry analysts Formula Money - a sum typical of big teams but two to three times the outlay of independent teams such as Fisichella's Force India. In such a high-tech sport, those with the deepest pockets tend to end up on top. (Read "How to Win a NASCAR Race...