Word: techs
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After the tech site Slashdot.org linked to the students’ site, the offers came rolling in. America Online, WinAmp and Microsoft—among others—all expressed interest in buying the program...
...There are some people—can’t tell how many at the very high levels of academic excellence that would make them good matches for us—who think primarily of a more intensively engineering-focused place such as MIT or Cal Tech,” she wrote. “We may not see them in our pool, perhaps for good reasons (i.e. the match with Harvard may not in fact be good...
...report also echoes University leaders in calling for closer ties to industry, especially through so-called “tech transfer,” which allows University discoveries to be marketed to industry...
...understand Gibbs' lament that we Americans are losing our moral authority, but as a Vietnam veteran, I want to tell people that the real problem is the evil of war. When we follow in lockstep behind an Administration that has rained down high-tech death on thousands of innocent Iraqis while our own country faces no imminent threat, how can we think the U.S. had any moral authority to begin with? If ever we are to claim some semblance of respect, we must become champions of nonviolent conflict-resolution policies, something about which the Bush Administration seems to have...
...tons of sugar. That was about 7.5 lbs. of sugar per capita. The U.S. currently consumes more than 150 lbs. of sweetener per capita, nearly 50% of which is high-fructose corn syrup that is increasingly used as a sugar substitute. Farmers armed with powerful fertilizers and high-tech equipment are growing enormous quantities of corn and wheat, most of which is processed and refined to be tastier and more convenient but is less nutritious. They are raising vast herds of cattle whose meat is laden with the fat that makes it taste so good. They are producing milk, butter...