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...European technology and telecom firms are in serious distress. Last week, just one day after celebrating its listing on the New York Stock Exchange, German electronics giant Siemens announced it would not meet its earlier sales and earnings targets. The firm's Infineon Technologies semiconductor unit was a victim of a global pullback in technology spending, which has sent memory chip prices plummeting. Sweden's Ericsson, owned directly or indirectly by half of that country's population, has announced that it will lose as much as $510 million in the first quarter instead of breaking even as expected, in large...
...most cases she depends on police to collect the specimens - which means training the officers to do it properly and thoroughly. "One maggot doesn't help me," she says. DNA technology promises greater advances in her field. Recently, the FBI matched a suspect to his dead rape victim by the blood contained in a single louse that had migrated from...
They have identified three so far. The most compelling involves a man serving 12 years for molesting a girl who was playing in his apartment. But others were there at the time. Police found a small drop of saliva on the victim's shirt - too small a sample to test in 1991. Today that spot could free a man. Test results are due any day. Inspired by San Diego, 10 other counties in the U.S. are starting DNA audits...
Nobody knows the vicissitudes of technology better than Lucent, which had to negotiate a $6.5 billion loan package last month to avoid a cash crunch. Lucent was first a beneficiary and then a victim of the race to wire the U.S. with the speed-of-light data pipes known as broadband. And now it has company in its misery, as broadband carnage has spread from phone companies like AT&T and WorldCom to fiber makers like Corning to optical-systems builders like Nortel Networks to components makers like JDS Uniphase and networking companies like Cisco Systems...
Robert's case would be simpler if he were in worse shape. Since the groundbreaking New Jersey ruling that in 1976 allowed the parents of coma victim Karen Ann Quinlan to shut off her respirator, California and other states have permitted families to remove life support from comatose or terminally ill patients. Wendland is neither. Given the precedent the Wendland case may set, right-to-life and disability-rights activists have lined up behind Florence, while bioethics professionals and the American Civil Liberties Union are supporting Rose. "This is a vital public-policy case," declares Wesley Smith, author of Culture...