Word: techs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gone the traditional small-town-to-big-city route. (In the 1980s, by contrast, rural areas suffered a net loss of 1.4 million people.) Thanks to the newcomers, 75% of the nation's rural counties are growing again after years of decline. Some towns are even booming, with high-tech industrial parks and bustling downtowns in which refurbished storefronts boast serious restaurants and community theaters, ubiquitous brew pubs and coffee bars. Inevitably, a cottage industry is springing up to service the newcomers. At least four recent books promise to teach cityfolk how to find the village of their dreams (Moving...
...Money Daily takes a look at one measure in particular: the NASDAQ, battered by turmoil in the semiconductor industry. A tech slump may be here to stay...
...intent to take a more active hand with management. Murdoch might find that interesting. He also might find himself with a like-minded partner. Alwaleed is a global thinker, and in the media business, nobody is more global than Murdoch. The prince apparently hopes that entrenching himself in high-tech media-related outfits may help make him a king of communications in the Middle East--or, in due course, an emperor like Murdoch. Says Alwaleed: "I want to concentrate on communications, technology, entertainment and news. This is the future. News Corp. is the only truly global news and entertainment company...
...trying for centuries to improve on nature's way of perpetuating the human species. The first successful artificial insemination took place during the presidency of George Washington. And since 1978, when the world's first test-tube baby was born, researchers have assembled a battery of medicines and high-tech procedures that have utterly transformed the treatment of infertility. More than 33,000 babies have been born in the U.S. thanks to in-vitro (literally, "in glass") fertilization, or IVF--nearly 7,000 in 1994 alone, the most recent year for which numbers are available...
Maryland also brings height and a deep-shooting threat into the contest. Five of the Terrapins are over 6'2", including 6'8" sophomore center Branka Bogunovic. Bogunovic is coming off of a career-high 16-point performance in the Terps' 74-42 throttling of Georgia Tech last Friday...