Word: high-tech
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...every month by attending satellite downlinks of "Christian Coalition Live," an hour of specific instruction on political organizing at which Reed himself plays host. The broadcasts feature target lists of lawmakers to contact regarding specific legislation. More than 200 conservative evangelical churches serve as the meeting places for these high-tech gatherings; the Coalition hopes to have 1,000 downlink sites by year...
...Hyman, each new repetition of a paranormal tale, even when related with a skeptical tone, "makes it more and more believable." Scientists are worried, too, that the proliferation of paranormal TV is contributing to the public's scientific illiteracy, which they regard as a national liability in a high-tech age. "If you are awash in lost continents and channeling and ufos," says astronomer Carl Sagan, "you may not have intellectual room for the findings of science...
...also be the Disney World of the 21st century. Scrubbed (or at least whitewashed) of its reputation as a Mob town infatuated with scuzzy strippers and sleazy comics, Las Vegas today is a leading family-resort destination, with theme parks, water parks and high-tech arcades in nearly every new hotel. And where families go, wholesome entertainment follows. That's one reason the Flamingo Hilton, the house that gangster Bugsy Siegel built, hired the Rockettes, whose high kicking and higher kitsch remind us that their brand of dance is as much a part of 20th century culture as anything choreographed...
...otherworldly vision to transcend this outsize format. And some, like EFX--a $67 million investment, including $27 million to equip its theater with 3-D movie projection, a "fog wall" of steam and liquid nitrogen and hot-wired rumble seats--are content to give visitors a hell of a high-tech ride...
...NERVE GAS IN THE TOKYO subway attack spotlights our increasing vulnerability to high-tech terror acts by fringe groups that are escalating their acts of violence. Our only safeguards against these threats are vastly improved intelligence sources and basic security measures, all of which we seem to regard as more expensive than our system can afford. Accordingly we shrug and go on with our lives, accepting the risk. But why continue to spend vast sums on absurd military projects when the same funds could protect us from a real threat? America's military planners are not just wasting money...