Word: teche
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...young sales attendant takes cover behind the tech vests and windpants...
Brandon Hart, a homesick freshman at Iowa State, has started e-mailing back and forth with his tech-novice mother, who says, "Brandon's being at college has left a huge hole in our lives." She couldn't bear to look at his empty bedroom, so she rearranged it and put the computer there. She sends old-fashioned "care packages," with baked goodies, novelty toys and notes from home. "The other guys get jealous when I bring another package in," Brandon said. "It's funny how exciting the mail gets when you get to college." See our Website at time.com...
...that carries the risk of serious and permanent complications. Corneaplasty, now in FDA trials, could carry fewer risks. While both corneaplasty and corneal surgery are treatments for refractive errors, neither is a cure for myopia. You cannot treat myopia comprehensively just by altering the shape of the cornea. High tech may be glamorous, but it is not always the best medicine. JULIE RALLS, M.D. Newport Beach, Calif...
...efforts are a hit with employees. In booming high-tech fields, where companies are looking for every edge in the competition for recruits, a glistening, state-of-the-art fitness center can clinch a contract. Few employees are worried their bosses will use health data against them, says United Auto Workers spokesman Reg McGhee. In fact, his union has even agreed to pay part of the cost of on-the-job health promotions...
...about time that AltaVista got some serious support. The service began as a tech experiment at the former Digital, but through deals with Yahoo it established itself early on as the most thorough search index of the Web. Digital and then Compaq tried to capitalize on the Top 10 traffic by adding "stickier" features such as subject directories and free e-mail, but that only created opportunities for new index companies like Inktomi, and now Google, to service the established portals - even while the attempts at a fuller AltaVista site floundered. MORE...