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...illegal pornography among pedophiles is rapidly becoming more popular than smutty magazines. The ring, based in Denmark, charged its members about $80 a year and used computers and telephone lines to transmit explicit photos of children ages 5 to 12. Customs officials say this is the first time a high-tech porn ring of this kind has been broken...
Kantor says he would prefer to reduce such foreign subsidies through negotiations. But that desire is being backed up by a threat: the Administration is willing to match any foreign subsidies that undermine American high-tech industries by funding expensive research and development for companies like McDonnell Douglas and Boeing...
That unusually broad experience led officials at the National Institutes of Health to pick Jacobs to head their new Office of Alternative Medicine. The office was created last year under pressure from a Congress alarmed by the soaring costs of high-tech healing and the frustrating fact that so many ailments -- AIDS, cancer, arthritis, back pain -- have yet to yield to standard medicine. In the breach, Americans have turned with growing enthusiasm to an array of unorthodox remedies, including hypnosis, biofeedback, homeopathy, acupuncture and herbs. According to the New England Journal of Medicine, a third of the population today consults...
Edwards' lyrics on that song underscore a major point of Perverse: people, with all their complexities, are increasingly confused as the world has become chaotic. The pop-music scene is also chaotic, as trends come and go. By breaking from the pack and making the radically different, high-tech Perverse, Jesus Jones has taken that trend and advanced...
...hear Silicon Graphics president Edward McCracken tell it, taking away the executive's most prized form of compensation -- stock options -- would be nothing less than a disaster for American business. High-tech companies, like his computer-manufacturing firm, would be unable to recruit top engineers and software programmers, warns McCracken. They would then lose their competitive edge. "The next thing you know," he says, "the Japanese would be taking over, and all of Silicon Valley would be at risk...