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...past several years - making sure to mention what difficult ones they were to be in charge of U.S. monetary policy. He took lawmakers through the boom and the bust that followed so closely behind, from the inventory imbalances to the layoffs to the housing market to the high-tech bubble. He even lingered a moment to explain - again - why that last 50-point rate hike in May 2000 was a good idea at the time...
...What is the future of voting? Will we see a high-tech solution in the near future...
More than 4,000 Americans on any given day are waiting for a heart transplant. Because of a shortage of donors, about a third of them will die before a suitable replacement can be found. So when surgeons in Louisville, Ky., sewed a high-tech artificial heart into a desperately ill man last week, it seemed like the answer to a lot of prayers. The patient, whose name has not been released, is described as a diabetic in his mid to late 50s who developed congestive heart failure after suffering several heart attacks. If he survives and his health improves...
Since 1998, wind power has been the fastest-growing new source of electricity in the world, expanding an average of 30% a year. Sales of photovoltaic panels (also known as solar cells), which convert the sun's energy directly into electricity, grew by 37% last year. At high-tech companies and hospitals, executives with a special concern about power disruptions are looking at fuel cells to supply clean and reliable power on site (albeit at prices that currently remain higher on average than those charged by the big utilities...
Best known for telling investors in 1999 that Amazon.com stock was worth $50 three weeks before it hit $400, Cohen has been vindicated by the current bear market for tech stocks. As the top tech analyst at Merrill Lynch, he was one of the few who preached moderation in the late '90s, and eventually left, to be replaced by superbull Henry Blodget. Today Cohen, 36, is moving on to money managing at a technology hedge fund, JHC Capital Partners...