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...SETUP The year is 2021. An ultra-high-tech multinational battle fleet (led by the U.S.S. Hillary Clinton, a George Bush--class supercarrier) is cruising off the coast of Indonesia, when suddenly a nearby high-energy physics experiment has a whoopsie, and the year isn't 2021 anymore. It's 1942, shortly before the Battle of Midway. So much for history as we know it. Birmingham could have just left this story as one big battle scene--he describes military hardware with an exuberance and virtuosity that's positively Clancyesque--but he also shows a surprisingly tender touch with...
...Lomada School on La Gomera, the second-smallest of Spain's seven Canary Islands, she has a cell phone tucked into the waistband of her trousers, which leave a fashionably bare patch of tanned tummy. But Maria and her classmates are also masters of a form of low-tech communication that doesn't require batteries or microwaves. Along with about 1,800 other schoolchildren on this rugged volcanic island, Maria is a student of El Silbo, the Gomera whistle, a substitute language based on four consonant and two vowel sounds. At a time when the boom in global communications risks...
...people, tennis is inseparable from superstar players and saturation media coverage. For a dedicated handful, however, the only tennis worth playing takes place on walled-in courts of late-medieval design. Its tournaments, adhering to arcane rules that have barely changed in 400 years, go untelevised. And the low-tech wooden racquets and hand-sewn balls would leave today's lawn-tennis professionals shaking their heads in disbelief. This is the sport of real tennis (also known as court tennis or royal tennis), and it's the perfect antidote for anyone still suffering from Wimbledon fatigue...
...changes come under a central administration—led by University President Lawrence H. Summers and Provost Steven E. Hyman—that has made “tech transfer,” the transfer of intellectual property from academia to industry, a high priority...
Options are in the spotlight because earlier this year the Financial Accounting Standards Board voted to require companies to treat them as an expense, making clear a cost that had been relegated to the footnotes. The tech world, which claims it needs stock options to attract good employees, has led the opposition. No lesser lights than Warren Buffett and Alan Greenspan have endorsed expensing. Here's the rub: surveys show that if options must be expensed, nearly half the companies with broad plans will cut back grants to the rank and file, while only a handful will cut equity-based...