Word: techs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Enter Dispatch Tech, Harvard's new generation of set builders. For a couple of pizzas and a few bottles of soda, this team of enthusiastic students promises to build the theater set of your dreams...
Dove hopes to restore that sense of personal discovery through high tech. She wants to use closed-circuit TV to broadcast readings into elementary and junior high schools, then answer questions from the students. "I think we can get these kids when they're young," she says. "I think they would be sufficiently intrigued by the closed-circuit aspect of it. It also gets them out of regular classes. I'll take it from there...
...amid the high-tech, spotless feeling of an advanced scientific laboratory there will be a small, poignant reminder of the everyday: Mousetraps will be stationed around the facility to prevent "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH"-like breakouts so that none of the valuable subjects can escape...
There are moments during Cirque du Soleil's "Saltimbanco" when the high-tech glitz of the production threatens to swallow the charm of this genuinely talented troop. "Saltimbanco" comes equipped with a live New Age band, a light show and a smoke machine that won't quit. This accumulated wattage makes some of the stagier numbers feel more like the latest Andrew Lloyd Webber extravaganza than the quirky, stylish acts for which Cirque du Soleil has won praise...
...place where multinational companies will set up their technological and marketing headquarters for the region," says Gillerman. So far, these companies have not come in large numbers because almost all Arab countries boycott products from Israel. Other experts doubt that is the only reason: Israel's relatively high-tech economy is more attuned to European than to Middle Eastern markets, they say, and labor in Israel is high priced. Amos Rubin, senior director of economic-policy issues at the Bank of Israel, points out that after 14 years of peace with Egypt, Israel's exports to that country were...