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...martyrs" of the Gaza Strip. Here too is the rubber bullet that killed Wael. Its thin coating of black rubber was stripped away by the impact, leaving it a ridged, fawnish metal ball about half an inch in diameter and as heavy as a wristwatch. Before anyone invented high-tech machine guns and tank shells, this was the kind of bullet people used when they wanted to kill one another...
Even in an age humming with electronic innovation, the new takes its baby steps in the boot prints of the old. Many of the cyber-knickknacks on our Tech 10 Best are binary clones of old friends. PayPal is the next Western Union; the Nikon Coolpix 900 is the spawn of the Brownie. Nike will customize your sneakers, just the way your "artistic" aunt did for your eighth birthday. And Napster: free access to worlds of music! It used to be called radio...
...metal sphere set in a mostly glass cube, is a homage to the unbuilt ball that Etienne-Louis Boullee conceived in 1784 as a memorial to Sir Isaac Newton. It tells of the grandeur of the universe itself, speaking in the language of both classic modernism and very high tech...
...together with an easing of inflation from some 3.3% this year to under 3%. And while unemployment may creep above 4% as the economy decelerates, jobs should remain plentiful. Says Martin Regalia, chief economist for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce: "The biggest concern of businesses from high tech to trucking is, 'Where will we get the workers to keep growing...
HEAT is a part of the Technology and Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard (TECH). TECH was created in 1999 as a place for students, faculty and alumni to learn from each other, collaborate and innovate, according to TECH's mission statement...