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...demand antibiotics, even though the drugs are useless against viruses. This, too, weeds out whatever susceptible bacteria are lurking in their bodies and promotes the growth of their hardier brethren. In many countries, antibiotics are available over the counter, which lets patients diagnose and dose themselves, often inappropriately. And high-tech farmers have learned that mixing low doses of antibiotics into cattle feed makes the animals grow larger. (Reason: energy they would otherwise put into fighting infections goes | into gaining weight instead.) Bacteria in the cattle become resistant to the drugs, and when people drink milk or eat meat, this...
Instead, Kirchner and Rosalie offer what is basically a high-tech light show -- perhaps the trendiest and most threadbare gambit now popular in Europe. Some of the stage pictures are inspired, like the glassy, green, undulating * plates that suggest the forest in Siegfried, but too often the choices seem arbitrary. In addition, Kirchner's stage maneuvers are inept. Time and again the cast is left singing directly to the audience -- just like the bad old days when operas were turned into stiff pageants. Some awkward direction will be corrected next year. Bayreuth stages no new productions of Wagner's other...
Paydays like that have helped turn cellular-phone fraud into a high-tech crime wave that costs the cellular industry about $300 million a year. Such breaches of security could threaten the growth of a booming $11 billion market that has 17 million U.S. customers and is gaining new ones at the rate...
...fingerprinting, as the process is called, is a complex, high-tech forensic test that can link a suspect to the commission of a crime -- or establish his innocence. While still controversial, use of the tests is gaining widespread acceptance in American courtrooms, including California's. That fact was hardly lost on either the Simpson defense or the prosecution. Attorney Shapiro insisted that his own experts as well as those hired by the * prosecution had the right to conduct the DNA tests. He requested that the prosecution turn over half the samples of blood that were collected by investigators after...
...with flaws in a high-tech baggage system that have led to a 10 month delay in the opening of Denver's new International Airport, the city's mayor has decided to build an ordinary conveyer belt system. The Mile High airport has been losing $1 million a day since May 15 because of the failed futuristic baggage system. The alternative conventional system will run up a tab of $50 million -- a quarter of the cost of the computerized system...