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...three high-tech heroes wish they had moved even faster, because so far the trail has been cold. "It took us a week or so to really get started," French says. "All of this should have happened in the first few hours." Even so, the three have laid the groundwork for lightning-fast searches in the future. At some point, ordinary citizens linked by nothing but goodwill and a keyboard will be able to check nationwide bulletin boards devoted to cases of missing children. Toward that end, French is feeding a national directory of & fax numbers into a permanent database...
...amid the high-tech, spotless feeling of an advanced scientific laboratory there will be a small, poignant reminder of the everyday: Mousetraps will be stationed around the facility to prevent "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH"-like breakouts so that none of the valuable subjects can escape...
There are moments during Cirque du Soleil's "Saltimbanco" when the high-tech glitz of the production threatens to swallow the charm of this genuinely talented troop. "Saltimbanco" comes equipped with a live New Age band, a light show and a smoke machine that won't quit. This accumulated wattage makes some of the stagier numbers feel more like the latest Andrew Lloyd Webber extravaganza than the quirky, stylish acts for which Cirque du Soleil has won praise...
...East, a place where multinational companies will set up their technological and marketing headquarters for the region," says Gillerman. So far, these companies have not come in large numbers because almost all Arab countries boycott products from Israel. Other experts doubt that is the only reason: Israel's relatively high-tech economy is more attuned to European than to Middle Eastern markets, they say, and labor in Israel is high priced. Amos Rubin, senior director of economic-policy issues at the Bank of Israel, points out that after 14 years of peace with Egypt, Israel's exports to that country...
...course, collegiate athletics back when Clark was hitting serves and diving for volleys may not have quite resembled today's high-tech, money-generating sports, and many coaches (including retiring football coach Joe Restic) assert that the way we play the games we play these days lacks the amateur spirit that Clark represents...