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...people were looking over their shoulders, then they were probably worried about Maverick (more recycled television, this time with big stars), about The Client and Clear and Present Danger (best-seller adaptations, also with reliable stars) and about True Lies (Arnold, armed, dangerous and in his best mode, the high-tech thriller). All these movies did all right--a little bit less or a little bit more than expected, but in the ballpark, if not always in the field of dreams. But they weren't Gump or Pulp or Weddings, either. That is to say, the sneaky, relatively unheralded, relatively...
...other part of the jobs problem is the lack of attractiveness of many segments businesses are generally attracted to providing high-wage, high-quality jobs in areas with the best infrastructure and to people with the best technical analytical and verbal skills. Many businesses regularly complain about not being able to find enough workers with the right basic skills. Too many Americans, they and many others claim, are undereducated and underskilled for the high-tech, high-wage, digital economy in which a growing percentage of market opportunities, both here and abroad, are available. Too many Americans are unattractive...
...childhood was found to have Asperger's syndrome, a high-function form of autism. Grandin now holds a Ph.D. in animal science and a teaching post at Colorado State University. She is well known not only on the medical-conference circuit for her insights into Asperger's but also in the meat-packing business for her advice on the humane treatment and disposal of livestock. Among her contributions is a design for a curved slaughterhouse ramp that is said to reduce animal anxiety by keeping hidden the high-tech poleax that dispatches the critters...
...technology into 21st century politics should serve to build confidence among skeptics. The mood of the nation is ripe. Last year survey takers reported that U.S. computer owners listed politics online as one of their highest priorities. And the newest political parties and movements often show a high-tech underpinning. Ross Perot's 1992 organizers, for example, drew their highest ratios of petition signers in high-tech strongholds -- from Massachusetts' Route 128 across the nation to Silicon Valley and Silicon Prairie. Upbeat theorists are prognosticating a ``virtual Washington'' in which members of Congress can debate and vote from back home...
CREATING VIRTUAL WASHINGTON Perot has already urged national town meetings, a group in Pennsylvania is talking about voters advising Washington via an electronic Congress, and nostalgia is growing for a high-tech update of Athenian democracy or of Norman Rockwellian townspeople gathered around a cast-iron stove in rural Vermont. Virtual Washington would be a wired, cyberspatial capital in which U.S. Representatives and Senators could participate from their states or districts, while citizens, too, would have any information, debate or proceeding at their fingertips. G.O.P. presidential candidate Lamar Alexander, who talks about sending members of Congress home for six months...