Word: techs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite the high-tech innovation, however, students interviewed yesterday said they see no great improvement...
Undergraduates accused one of the firms, All-Pro Moving and Storage Company, of stealing computers, stereos and other high-tech items...
...antibiotics, even though the drugs are useless against viruses. This, too, weeds out whatever susceptible bacteria are lurking in their bodies and promotes the growth of their hardier brethren. In many countries, antibiotics are available over the counter, which lets patients diagnose and dose themselves, often inappropriately. And high-tech farmers have learned that mixing low doses of antibiotics into cattle feed makes the animals grow larger. (Reason: energy they would otherwise put into fighting infections goes | into gaining weight instead.) Bacteria in the cattle become resistant to the drugs, and when people drink milk or eat meat, this immunity...
...real underground has taken the very un-Postmodern step of depending on paper and the Postal Service: this is the low-tech, unwired world of photocopied "fanzines" (from fan magazines), the vanity projects of a new generation of publishers who are making fat, unglossy magazines radical again. Many of these "zines," as they are more generally called, are produced with desktop computers, but that is as sophisticated as they get. The majority make a point of their crude appearance and unhurried voyage to the reader; most are collated by hand, distributed by the mailman and cost...
...concert's official soft drink; Apple Computer; and Haagen-Dazs. A Haagen-Dazs spokesman explained why his company wanted to be linked to the festival: "This is a progressive event dedicated to the idea that people can have it all. Peace on earth, great music, high tech, great family life that blends perfectly with our message -- reward, indulgence and nutritional balancing." Also Vanilla Swiss Almond...