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Techno-savvy fans have embraced the hybrids, flooding Internet chat rooms with talk of torque and throttle response, boasting about mileage. "Kick Some Gas!" urges one site, Priusenvy.com Senator Robert Bennet of Utah, chairman of the Republican High-Tech Task Force, fills his Insight's gas tank once a month. "It's the ideal commuter car," he says. But he has yet to persuade his fellow legislators to make the switch...
...shortage? There are few hard facts, but lots of theories. Anecdotal evidence suggests that more men than women respond to the lure of high-tech jobs that don't require a bachelor's degree. Some call this the Bill Gates syndrome, after the college-dropout chairman of Microsoft. But high-tech industries employ only about 9% of the U.S. work force. Amid the hot economy of recent years, a larger group of men--especially those from lower-income families--might be heading straight from high school into fields like aircraft mechanics and telephone- and power-line repair that...
...success of her efforts. As part of Virginia's high-stakes testing program, schools that don't boost their scores by the year 2007 could lose state funding. So Fairfax City, just 18 miles southwest of the White House, has upgraded its two crumbling elementary schools with new high-tech television studios, computer labs and one very old feature--mandatory Latin...
...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...
PASS THE KEY If you share a car with Shaquille O'Neal or Verne Troyer, this is the invention you've been waiting for. Mercedes-Benz is introducing a high-tech SmartKey with its 2001 models that remembers exactly how you like to set up your car's interior: where you position the seat, at what angle you like the mirrors, your preferred air-conditioning setting. The second you turn on the ignition, the car rearranges itself for your pleasure. Of course, you could change the settings yourself, but that would be too much like work...