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...years, savvy smugglers, complicit businessmen and well-heeled Soviet officials managed to stay out of sight as they ferried America's technological secrets from West to East. No longer. A string of scandals, beginning with last spring's Toshiba affair, has pushed the issue of high-tech banditry squarely into the spotlight. The stories, many of which lack the happy ending supplied by Corporal Fudge, have strengthened the resolve of U.S. officials to track down and punish those who traffic in the nation's secrets. Earlier this month Commerce Secretary William Verity announced that officials from the NATO allies...
University officials said that in addition to Harvard's stature, the large number of high-tech firms in the area might induce the technology-minded Gorbachev to visit Harvard...
...Gorbachev it would make sense to come here. It would make sense to visit the Route 128 corridor" where much of the high-tech industry has gravitated in recent years, said Marshall I. Goldman '56, director of Harvard's Russian Research Center...
After a calm morning, a rumor wafts through the exchange: Iran is about to accept a cease-fire in its gulf war with Iraq. High-tech stocks like Matsushita and Fujitsu take off. But the Japanese government cannot confirm the report, and stocks retreat. In the final hour, a wave of panic selling drives the index down by 1203.23 points, to 23,201.22. It is Tokyo's second worst one-day beating ever...
...genetic screening that identifies whether the unborn individual will be subject to heart disease or cancer or schizophrenia raise a new round of issues. Would altering the defective genes in utero be ethically permissible, given the risk of unforeseen results for future generations? The moral dilemmas spawned by the high-tech world of biomedicine -- closer to salvation or Pandora's box? -- are sufficient to keep Callahan and his Hastings associates busy for a lifetime. A natural life-span, of course...