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...difficult to switch from one technical field to another, or from a non-tech to another non-tech, but not across the divisions," says Phillips, now a graduate student in English...
Unfortunately, the American system of end-of-life care is broken, and positive experiences with death are the exception rather than the rule. Statistics and clinical studies indicate that you will probably die alone, in pain and receiving aggressive medical treatment unjustified by likely benefits. A high-tech, high-cost, hospital death will most likely leave your family emotionally and literally impoverished...
...Jaipur foot is its lightness and mobility--those who wear it can run, climb trees and pedal bicycles--and its low price. While a prosthesis for a similar level of amputation can cost several thousand dollars in the U.S., the Jaipur foot costs only $28 in India. Sublimely low-tech, it is made of rubber (mostly), wood and aluminum and can be assembled with local materials. In Afghanistan craftsmen hammer the foot together out of spent artillery shells. In Cambodia, where roughly 1 out of every 380 people is a war amputee, part of the foot's rubber components...
Hail to the chips! Fueled by a ravenous appetite for computerware in developing countries, high tech has shot to the top of the U.S. exports list, with $29 billion in sales last year. Commerce Department statistics released Tuesday paint an astounding picture of Silicon Valley: San Jose posted an 81 percent rise in exported goods over the last four years, bypassing New York and even the motor giants of Detroit...
...take a more personal perspective on the problem. Last week, midway through my first section in the Barker Center, I started to think about Alter's column. Did we need this fancy new classroom, with its heavy wooden desks and high-tech security system? What had been so lacking in the seminar rooms in Sever, Emerson, Coolidge, Lowell and Memorial halls, or Lamont Library...