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...make jobs for our kids and grandkids. It is clear we will have to attract many new faces to Utah to do that." The old mainstays of Utah's economy--agriculture, mining and military bases--are in decline, so the state has aggressively shifted its energies toward developing high-tech industries, and needs imported experts...
...followers fled westward to escape persecution. Modern-day non-Mormon settlers will come only because they want to, and the state's leaders know that. So, as if by rote, they recite the advantages of living in Utah: low crime, great mountains, those five national parks, a tech-savvy population with the nation's highest per capita ownership of computers, and 45-min. access to world-class ski resorts from the center of Salt Lake. Yet the image of Paradise Postponed persists. The Mormon presence is always there in the background, a faint theme song that never gets turned...
...WIRED The ReefMaster Digital Land and Sea Camera is the first digital camera that works underwater. Its built-in software compensates for tricky undersea lighting conditions, and its high-tech plastic housing is waterproof to 100 ft. (a deluxe model can go to 200 ft.) With a price tag of $450, though, you'd better hope you're snapping sunken treasure. Find out more at www.sealife-cameras.com...
...improved quality and lower prices of videoconferencing were attracting attention even before Sept. 11, as the tech recession and the beginnings of the slowdown elsewhere in the economy had companies searching for ways to save on travel. A conventional system like Polycom's ViewStation 512 can receive multiple video calls and allow data transmission with connections that look and sound like network television. In 1994 a less capable unit cost about $70,000. Today a corporation could equip four offices for less than...
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