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...Resort and Casino in Nassau, Bahamas, has just the answer for jackpot winners wondering how to spend their money: sleep it away in the Galactica Suite. For $25,000 a night, guests can slumber in what is billed as the most expensive hotel suite in the world. The six high-tech rooms boast such extravagant features as an aquarium containing a giant stingray, artwork on the walls that can be changed electronically, and heat-detecting switches that turn on lights when a person walks into the room. The 2,500-sq.- ft. silver-and-white suite even comes equipped with...
...Northeast: Down at the Heels. From Boston's high-tech wizardry to Wall Street's takeover deals, the Northeast was on a roll during most of the Roaring '80s. But Wall Street launched a series of layoffs after the 1987 crash and the Massachusetts minicomputer industry went into a spin. The double whammy left the region with a glut of unsold houses and banks with billion- dollar portfolios of bad loans. The Massachusetts economy, which grew more than 7% in 1984, shrank about 1% last year...
David Webster, a former director of the BBC and now a senior fellow of the Annenberg Washington Program on Communications Policy, calls high-tech information gear "the essential hardware of freedom." He rightly urges the U.S. to ease restrictions on the export of such equipment to communist lands, since it will serve the ruled better than the rulers...
...time of diminishing Pentagon budgets, both the B-2 Stealth bomber and the proposed Advance Tactical Fighter, which will also incorporate Stealth technology, are catching heavy flak in Congress. The Air Force unleashed its F-117As not to scare Manuel Noriega but to build a case that high-tech aircraft have a role even in a low-tech...
Such reasoning does not impress cordless users like Tyler, who insists that "a cordless phone is just a high-tech extension phone." Argues one of his lawyers, Randall Wilson: "It is not the intention of those who purchase cordless phones to broadcast to a large number of people. Persons should not be forced to waive their rights in order to participate in a technology-driven society." Many civil libertarians and privacy-law experts agree. Says Harvard University law Professor Alan Dershowitz: "It is preposterous to make our legal rights turn on the physics of how the voice is transmitted...