Word: techs
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...Irvine's Mark also thinks improved technology will help, but she points to low-tech solutions as well. Some companies, she notes, give employees DO NOT INTERRUPT screens to put over their cubicles or establish quiet times when it's not permissible to bother a colleague. In some offices, she says, "workers wear colored hats to signify when they do and do not want to be interrupted." Another simple trick, suggests Spira, is to leave more explicit instructions on e-mail "away messages" and answering machines about how and when you prefer to be interrupted...
...which had scattered al-Qaeda and degraded its capacities. We knew about the war in Iraq, which has become a magnet worldwide for jihadists, diverting energy to that front from the American front. But the defensive part, gathering critical preventive intelligence through all kinds of techniques--savory, unsavory, high tech and clandestine--had not been known...
Over the past couple of decades, however, engineers armed with an array of high-tech materials and sophisticated ideas about angular momentum and moments of inertia have transformed the sport--and, most notably, the bowling ball. Nowadays the ball comes with a dizzying array of options, each imparting a different spin and roll. So where serious bowlers used to carry just one ball to the lanes, they now haul around half a dozen or more to be ready for whatever conditions they might encounter. "It's just like a golfer carrying 14 different clubs," says Bill Wasserberger, director...
...seen in the upward creep of average scores recorded by the Professional Bowlers Association. And like innovations in other sports--composite golf clubs, big-headed tennis rackets--they are starting to catch on among amateurs as well. The major U.S. manufacturers sold more than a million high-tech balls last year...
Pelosi is trying to force Washington to go high tech on other fronts as well. In a recent meeting with Google co-founder Larry Page, Pelosi told him of the Democrats' plan to try to make broadband Internet access available nationwide in 10 years. "Ten, why not two?" Page responded, so Pelosi split the difference and is aiming for five years. She is also pushing the ideas of Clayton Christensen, Harvard Business School's innovation guru who says big organizations must open up to new ideas and technology or they will get left behind. Says Pelosi: "We cannot be encumbered...