Word: techs
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...UNITED ARAB EMIRATES' MINISTER OF FINANCE Sheikha Lubna al-Qasimi is ditching her job as CEO of a Middle Eastern tech firm to be the first woman to hold a Cabinet position since the U.A.E. was formed...
Doug Gale, a 30-year-old Dallas banker, returned from a vacation to Tokyo and Hong Kong in 2001 raving as much about TV sets as about ancient temples, towering skyscrapers and exotic food. A self-proclaimed tech geek, Gale scouted out electronics shops and was mesmerized by flat-screen TVs. Their monstrous sizes, sleek designs and flashy displays were perfect, he thought, for watching his favorite Dallas Stars charge down the ice. "I'd never seen anything like them," he says of the TVs. "They were just phenomenal. As soon as I got back to Dallas I was thinking...
...flashy iconoclasts, a subtle traditionalist like Taniguchi may be the true radical. Indeed, his final presentation in 1997 to MOMA's seven-member Architect Selection Committee was so low-tech?so unlike anything seen in architectural pitches in decades?that Riley remembers it as a near disaster. "Taniguchi is not what you'd call trained in the art of salesmanship," he says. "There were no special effects, no flip-books, no PowerPoint presentations. What you had was a rather shy man talking about his philosophy of architecture. It was probably one of the worst presentations I've seen...
...TECH: Seinfeld comes...
Before the attack, planners employed an array of high-tech sensors to plot the location of booby traps, then used precision strikes to take them...