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...lure of the China market will be too strong to resist and they will find specious justifications for their sales. (The most specious was offered by the French Defense Minister, who seems to have convinced herself that European exports will stop China's development of its own capability in high-tech systems.) Though the E.U. is working on a code of conduct that will?it is said?prevent the export of anything really nasty, there's little point in lifting the ban unless everyone expects that trade between the E.U. and China will thereby grow...
Today, in Iceland and Sweden, girls consistently outperform boys in math and physics (see box). In Sweden the gap is widest in the remote regions in the north. That may be because women want to move to the big cities farther south, where they would need to compete in high-tech economies, while men are focused on local hunting, fishing and forestry opportunities, says Niels Egelund, a professor of educational psychology at the Danish University of Education. The phenomenon even has a name, the Jokkmokk effect, a reference to an isolated town in Swedish Lapland...
Each February, hundreds of high-tech entrepreneurs and venture capitalists meet in Scottsdale, Ariz., for the most exclusive trade show of the year. Closed to the general public, Demo is a place where even a no-name start-up gets a chance to impress. Here's a peek at this year's coolest innovations. --By Anita Hamilton...
...transition she made in 1980 after 17 years of staying home with the kids. Back then, aptitude tests revealed that she would make a perfect engineer, and she plunged back into school for a degree in computer science at age 40. With degree in hand, she began a high-tech career that included stops at Digital, Apple and IBM. This time, however, she didn't need someone to tell her what she was interested in. While at IBM, Dibner started taking sculpture classes, riding the T to Boston's Museum School after work. Once she decided to accept an early...
...showrooms in early summer), the German automaker handed out cards imprinted with a phone number. Prospective customers could then get a sneak peek at the new vehicle on their Web-enabled cell phones, complete with video clips. Says Glenn Field, ceo of Boomerang Media, which dreamed up the high-tech solution used by BMW: "It's like driving in right through the phone...