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...Harvard grad brings high tech to his family's 100-year-old farm...
...that officials seven years ago set up an on-site court in Veterans Stadium--with a jail--to handle the worst offenders. Eagles president Joe Banner says the jail only "moderately improved" behavior at the Vet; it took a move to a new stadium, with a high-tech security system equipped with 100 cameras to spot trouble, to quiet things down, at least...
Belichick defines the 21st century NFL coach: tech savvy, detail oriented and passionate about personnel--a mini-CEO in his realm. New England spends inordinate amounts of time evaluating playersand not just assessing athletic talent. It looks for personalities that fit into New England's system, which is not star driven. A head coach today, Tagliabue explains, is "someone who is effectively an executive investing half a billion dollars in the next five years." That's the amount of money each coach will have to spend on players over that period, and the salary cap prevents any team from buying...
...play patterns are forcing toymakers to fight for shelf space in a tightening market. Boys in particular seem to be abandoning traditional toys at earlier ages in favor of consumer electronics, trendy video games, PC software and the Internet. The notion that kids are growing more sophisticated and tech savvy, a trend called age compression, has bedeviled toy companies for at least a decade. While young children still role-play with dollhouses and Tonka trucks (and cheap plastic toys will always play their pacifying role on shopping trips), the market for action figures, for instance, used to be considered healthy...
Just how do they bring that football magic to TV every week? The production of television football has become a high-tech command performance. Behind the scenes, as Stover was getting ready to make that kick on a November Sunday afternoon, the CBS Broadcast Center in New York City looked like NASA control. The network was broadcasting four games simultaneously across the country (all of the CBS affiliates in Texas, for example, aired the Houston Texans--Indianapolis Colts contest, while New York, Baltimore and even North Dakota got Jets-Ravens). Hundreds of workers monitored screens in some two dozen control...