Word: tech
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...that simple. On a day that the dot bombs and other tech dears descended into a panicky free fall, no one with a sizable stake could help fretting that the bubble had burst. At the lows, the decline was in some ways worse than the 1987 crash. Yes. The Crash. Doesn't register? Think. Mom or Dad may have mentioned...
Then everything changed. Or should I say nothing changed? Investors flooded into the market to buy the dip, and the NASDAQ roared back to end the day with only modest losses, then skipped through the rest of the week with little grief. Indeed, tech bellwethers, including Oracle and Intel, finished the week with gains...
...previous semesters, Lessig has taught a range of courses, some of which--like "The High-Tech Entrepreneur"--have focused primarily on Internet and software...
...More immediately, however, the arms sale also reflects the fact that Israel's burgeoning high-tech economy and substantial defense industry - capitalized in part by U.S. aid - position it to take an increasingly aggressive role in a global arms market increasingly hungry for the weapons of advanced, electronic-age warfare. "In this market of the defense industries of the world, in this competition, there are no friends," said Sneh. "Everyone is competing without mercy against everyone." That, of course, is not the way U.S. legislators see it, and a threat last week from the House Foreign Aid Committee to deduct...
...definitive equation for calculating the possible number of technologically advanced civilizations in our Milky Way galaxy, remains convinced that he will be around when one of them calls. "We're just at the beginning of our search," says Drake, who reckons that there are some 10,000 high-tech worlds scattered among the Milky Way's 100 billion or more stars. That's a much more modest figure than the late Carl Sagan's estimate of 1 million intelligent civilizations in just our galaxy--one of perhaps 100 billion galaxies scattered through the universe...