Word: high-tech
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...seemed a straightforward assignment for the high-tech wizards in naval intelligence. They were alerted that the North Korean freighter Dae Hung Ho had sailed with a reputed cargo of Scud-C ballistic missiles bound ultimately for Syria, and they were told to track it. Last week an eager faction in the National Security Council and the State Department leaked word that the U.S. was determined to intercept the freighter and search its hold as it made its way from the Indian Ocean toward the Persian Gulf, where U.S. naval vessels were patrolling to enforce the U.N. embargo against Iraq...
...from Achtung Baby and virtually ignoring their existence before The Joshua Tree ("Pride (In the Name of Love)" was the notable exception), U2 intentionally divorced themselves from their past and thus alienated and disappointed many in the crowd who prefer the simple passion of U2 past to the bizarre high-tech production of U2 present...
...largest computer-virus scare to date -- a week-long frenzy of hype and high-tech hand-holding that dramatized the vulnerability of the world's 137 million personal computers -- and the gullibility of their users. In the end, the bug's bark was worse than its bite. The National Computer Security Association in Washington reported that 15 computers had been struck in England, 12 in the Netherlands and five in Austria. There were disruptions in Japan, China and New Zealand. Several hundred computers used by South Africa's pharmacists were zapped. But except for a Southern Baptist church near Atlanta...
...talent for making film masterpieces out of risky and unusual plot concepts. His last picture, Wings of Desire, followed the story of trenchcoat-wearing angel who falls in love--and out of grace--when he meets a trapeze artist in a Berlin circus. His new work, a high-tech detective love story that unfolds in a world on the verge of the 21st century, is equally improbable and enthralling...
...Lieut. Peter Smith, a community-liaison officer who speaks a little Japanese, pushes to solve the murder of Cheryl Austin, which seems to have something to do with the Nakamoto Corp.'s plans to buy one of the last remaining high-tech electronics firms still in American hands, he discovers the extent of Japanese economic subversion. It's not just the huge real estate and industrial investments. The chronically roundheeled U.S. Congress is a wholly owned subsidiary. Local governments and Smith's own police force have been "influenced." University labs are not working for the good guys. "At the University...