Word: techs
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...fruit bat flying over your head, you may wonder whether you are still in Zurich. And that's how the zoo's director, Alex Rübel, intended it. Opened in June 2003, after a decade of planning and construction, the j33.5 million project boasts such high-tech features as light-sensitive roof foil that maintains high temperature and humidity, a waterfall and man-made rain from sprinklers pouring up to 80,000 liters of water a day. Some 17,000 species of plants and 2,500 trees were brought in from Madagascar...
...shriek at a fruit bat flying over your head, you may wonder whether you are still in Zurich. And that's how the zoo's director, Alex R?bel, intended it. Opened in June 2003, after a decade of planning and construction, the j33.5 million project boasts such high-tech features as light-sensitive roof foil that maintains high temperature and humidity, a waterfall and man-made rain from sprinklers pouring up to 80,000 liters of water a day. Some 17,000 species of plants and 2,500 trees were brought in from Madagascar...
...sleek, superfast monorail propelled from Springfield to Boston by powerful electromagnets. Commuters would still commute on either side in the familiar car lanes, but they would be the main event no longer—the median’s proud iron steed would have stolen their thunder. A high-tech, vaguely Blade Runner-flavored cream center would have at last filled the transportational Twinkie that is the Pike...
...many respects, beset by stubborn inefficiencies that have hindered progress and prosperity for decades. A decrepit transportation system, inadequate communication and electrical infrastructure, and an obstructionist bureaucracy might make it hard for India's economy to match China's spectacular growth. Despite the high-profile growth of the tech sector, for example, agriculture still accounts for nearly a quarter of GDP, and the country's predominantly agrarian population remains at the mercy of the monsoon. In 2002, the rains were poor, and India's agriculture suffered; the economy grew only 4.3%. India's economic planners maintain that the economy...
...take his employees home at night, which adds another 3% to 5% to his annual expenses. And India's electrical grid is so unreliable that most manufacturing companies have to produce their own power by purchasing generators and the fuel to run them. The cost of electricity for Indian tech companies is twice as high as it is for their Thai or Indonesian counterparts. "Over a period, we are eroding our competitive advantage," says Raman Roy, managing director of Wipro Spectramind, one of India's leading call-center operators...