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Urgencies vary with the times. In Lewis and Clark country, if there is any visionary thought of Jeffersonian scope going on, it is directed toward reconciling development with environmental protection. Ward Parkinson, the co-founder of Micron Technology, Idaho's largest private employer, thinks long term about educated work forces and quality of life and says that when the state's politicians "decide to protect the salmon on the Snake River, that's when we will know they are serious about developing industry." There may be a convergence of environment and industry coming, but it is still somewhere downstream. --With...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Land Is Whose Land? | 7/8/2002 | See Source »

Technology isn't just stealing evolution's methods and embedding them in software. Companies are poking and prodding the fundamentals of the physical world. They are slinking down from the micron scale (one-millionth of a meter) to what is known as the nano scale, inhabited by devices that are less than 100 nanometers wide, or less than one-thousandth the width of a human hair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Board Of Technologists: High Tech Evolves | 6/10/2002 | See Source »

...South Korean government stave off default by successfully renegotiating its bank loans. Now he is helping the South Korean microchip maker Hynix sustain its financial health. Walker was recently hired to advise the company in its discussions--including talk of a possible merger--with U.S.-based chipmaking rival Micron Technology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People To Watch In International Business | 1/28/2002 | See Source »

PARK CHONG SUP Chipmaker The CEO of South Korean chipmaker Hynix is facing more than $8 billion in debt at his company, but Sup, 53, is working on a deal that offers hope. Earlier this month he met with the CEO of rival Micron Technology, based in Boise, Idaho, to pursue a variety of strategic partnerships. The day after the talks were announced, Hynix stock rose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People to Watch in International Business | 12/24/2001 | See Source »

...MILL THE SPORES Once the spores are dry, they are ground down to the smallest possible particle size, anywhere from one micron (one spore) to 20 microns. The process adds electrostatic charges to the particles, which makes them clump together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Anthrax Is Weaponized... | 11/5/2001 | See Source »

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