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...expected to reduce capital spending significantly. Yet there was a buoyant sense that the U.S. would ride it out. "I don't think the economy is capable of having a deep downturn now if monetary and fiscal policies remain sound," says John Snow, chairman and CEO of transport giant CSX Corp., echoing the sentiments of many of his peers. "There is not a huge stock of inventories to work off. We've gone to a just-in-time type of economy. A quarter or two of shallow recession or reduced growth is all I see, and when that is finished...
Nevertheless, at the elementary school, principal David Thompson is an unabashed Benz booster. When the school needed extra buses to transport pupils to the ballet, Thompson said, Mercedes provided them. And when the car company learned the school was mounting a production of Hansel and Gretel, it dispatched several of its expats to help the pupils learn German songs. The experience made a lasting impression on the students. As Thompson put it, "They couldn't tell you your multiplication tables if you asked them. If you say, 'What's 9 times 7?', they probably have already forgotten it. But they...
...many of these out-growths of the Internet. Others include electronic mail and file transfers. The Web exists on the Internet using a language called hypertext transport protocol (http...
Take an automated laboratory at New York Presbyterian Hospital. Conveyor belts transport blood or urine specimens in containers that resemble toy railroad cars from a collection point to a computerized analyzer. The machine takes a sample with a dipstick; the computer reads the results and flashes them to the monitor of the doctor in charge of the case. The lab will save the salaries of dozens of people who "used to move the specimens around by hand, read the test results on a screen and then telephone the doctor," says Scalzi. The lab cost $7 million...
Technicians drain the afterbirth of its blood and process the material to concentrate the stem cells. Theoretically, stem cells can rebuild the body's bloodmaking machinery so that it produces the full array of effective blood cells the body needs to defend itself against germs, close wounds and transport oxygen. Scientists speculate that cord stem cells are more adaptable and will transplant more successfully, even in patients with imperfect biological matches, than stem cells harvested from adult bone-marrow donors...