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...number of proposed high-tech business ventures have recently gone bust or been postponed. The vexing question: How many droll ways are there to say "trouble on the information superhighway"? Journalists are working hard to exhaust the metaphoric possibilities...
They are the soul of the personal computer and worth more than their weight in gold or cocaine. Small wonder then that these tiny, high-tech chips have become the latest target of the international crime set. A few tales from the cyberfront: in Greenock, Scotland, three knife-wielding masked men overpowered a factory guard last month and stole $3.7 million worth of chips and related computer parts; in Fremont, California, burglars disarmed a security system and made off with more than $1.8 million of chips and computer equipment in a January warehouse heist. And outside Portland, Oregon, five gunmen...
...idea of stickups inside some of the world's glossy, high-tech laboratories and computer warehouses is a bit incongruous, unless one considers that computer chips are a robber's dream -- very precious (up to $900 for the newest models) and easy to conceal (the size of matchbooks when sealed inside their cases). And these days they are in high demand: the worldwide market for personal computers grew 8%, to $68 billion, in 1993. The main target of thieves is the Intel 486 chip that powers most new IBM PC and IBM-compatible machines; such chips are now in more...
...satellite campus also exposes medical students to primary care in its own environment, rather than the high-tech, dazzling world of academic medicine, which tends to focus on expensive specialists. It's only natural, as one Harvard Medical School faculty member recently told me, that faculty in an academic setting are more likely to extol its virtues over those of community-based primary care...
While companies cannot always anticipate their legal exposure, they can take precautions to shield themselves from violent intrusion. As a result, they are investing more than ever in hiring guards and installing high-tech gizmos like tilt-and-zoom closed-circuit cameras or magnetic-card access systems. The current outlay is more than $22 billion each year, up 16% from 1990, according to Leading Edge Reports, a research firm based in Cleveland, Ohio. The figure is well in excess of the amount spent on the nation's police departments. By 1996 the expenditure is expected to soar another...