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...violence. As Mary Nemeth writes in the weekly Canadian news magazine, MacLean's, "...other countries have their lurid scandals. But for sheer volume and variety the American experience--amplified by a hype machine that marries the age-old fascination with sex and violence to the modern miracle of high-tech communications--is unrivaled." Viewers of CNN apparently were so engrossed in courtroom testimony that when the channel switched to coverage of President Clinton's visit to Kiev, angry Bobbitt watchers clogged network phone lines, After all, how could international affairs even hope to compete with tales of rape...
According to Congressional Quarterly, the October vote abandoned $2 billion of work, which had paid for advanced physics equipment, 14.7 miles of tunneling, salaries for more than 7,000 jobs and 211,000 square feet of high-tech laboratory space in Waxahatchie, Texas, about 35 miles south of Dallas...
...HIGH-TECH AID FOR BOSNIA...
Fearing that the Serbs may step up their assaults on Muslims, the Pentagon is rushing high-tech surveillance equipment to Bosnia. Several unmanned aerial vehicles -- drones that can be used for reconnaissance over trouble spots without risking planes and crews -- will be put at the disposal of U.N. forces...
...Frank-and-Dino Rat Pack days of the '50s and '60s -- the tourist inflow has nearly doubled over the past decade, and the area remains among America's fastest growing -- the hypereclectic 24-hour-a-day fantasy-themed party machine no longer seems so very exotic or extreme. High-tech spectacle, convenience, classlessness, loose money, a Nikes-and-T-shirt dress code: that's why immigrants flock to the U.S.; that's why some 20 million Americans (and 2 million foreigners) went to Vegas in 1992. "Las Vegas exists because it is a perfect reflection of America," says Steve Wynn...