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...watch some others compete in T.V. trivia. Maybe someone will break a record for highest score tonight? You can watch Boise State Junior College compete against Southeast Louisiana Tech on ESPN 2. If you are a bit perverted, you can walk through the bathroom corridor and watch some of the guys read the sports pages while standing in front of the urinals...
Cybercafes (which typically charge $5 to $10 an hour to log on, though many provide discounted or free access with the purchase of food and drink) offer other high-tech icebreakers as well, such as CD-ROMs and new videogames. In Los Angeles, Cyber Java draws crowds with its videophone facilities. Cyber Cafe offers classes in Net navigation and Web-page authoring. At Cybersmith in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the country's grandest computer playland cum restaurant, regulars can congregate around a virtual-reality flight simulator ready for testing...
...ATMS look like jukeboxes. Mostly, however, the museum rises above Hard Rock Cafe-style gimmickry by showing respect for the music and its origins. Still, rock by nature resists institutionalization--the Lollapalooza tour, only in its fifth year, already seems stale. Museum officials plan to open a high-tech theater later this year in the hope that holographic concerts, online music events and other technology-rich experiences being created will help keep the institution fresh and relevant. After all, the last thing a rock museum should seem like is something that belongs in, well, a museum...
...sophisticated information-processing equipment and smart weapons the Army hopes to have fully deployed by the year 2010, was pitted against a North Korean army corps three times its size. With computers that pass combat orders quickly and sensors that see the enemy better on the battlefield, the high-tech division "just clobbered them," says Brigadier General Keith Kellogg of the Army's Training and Doctrine Command...
Investors backed away from multinational companies as the dollar unexpectedly rebounded. Investors refocused on stocks of smaller and mid-sized companies and high tech firms. Blue Chip stocks fell and technology and small cap stocks strengthened, pushing the Nasdaq index up 2.04 to a record high of 1,031.28. For the week, the index finished up 27.17, an increase of 2.7 percent. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 13.03 to 4, 617.60. In moderate trading, advances led declines, 1207 to 996 on a volume of 312 million shares. The S & P 500 closed at 559.21, up 0.17. In London, gold...