Word: techs
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...human-rights abuses; the new Chinese "antisecession" law authorizing war if Taiwan edges towards independence, which drew hundreds of thousands of protesters onto the streets of Taipei late last week; and intense pressure from Washington - which fears it might one day be on the receiving end of high-tech weapons in the Taiwan Strait - led several E.U. members to sidle away from a deal to lift the embargo by June. Shen Dingli, a professor of international affairs at Shanghai's Fudan University, thinks Beijing "didn't expect this reaction" to the antisecession law, even though a top aide...
...TECH CHEF...
This culinary showman, whom critics have called a "tech chef" and an "avant-garde artiste," grew up in Portland, Ore., the inquisitive son of an engineer. He worked in several kitchens across the country before persuading Charlie Trotter to hire him at his esteemed eponymous Chicago restaurant in 1999. There, Cantu invented a hands-free emulsion blender for the kitchen. "I started seeing a place for crazy ideas," he says. While at Trotter's, where he was promoted to sous chef, he filed the first of his 38 kitchen-utensil patents. In early 2004, he opened Moto and soon became...
...Schiavo, a severely disabled woman, is being starved and dehydrated to death in the name of supposed “dignity.” Polls show that most Americans believe that her death is a private matter and that her removal from a feeding tube—a low-tech, simple and inexpensive device used to feed many sick and disabled people—is a reasonable solution to the conflict between her husband and her parents over her right to life...
...especially of strong religious faiths, believe that the administration of artificial nutrition and hydration is somehow different from the administration of other medical treatments. But look at it this way. Schiavo’s body can no longer function, and the tube inserted into her stomach is one high-tech method of picking up where her body has failed. This administration of artificial nutrition and hydration is just like using a ventilator to take over when a person cannot breathe on his or her own. It’s a medical means of substituting for a bodily function?...