... US apparel and textile industry now? It is suffering from surge of Asian and Central American imports. Companies have shifted their sewing plants overseas where cheap and skilled labor out competes their US counterparts by the mile. With NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) in effect, US manufacturers, in ... to "shrink yourself to success-. Textile makers say they began skidding into their current slump following the "Asian flu- of 1997 and 1998 when cheap foreign imports gate crashed the US market as a result of the Asian currency crisis. Because of the devaluations, textile an...

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... from now we will see truly intelligent computers with humanlike equalities. Now we have robotic house pets and computers that beat humans at chess all thanks to the availability of cheap microprocessors and recent discoveries about how the human brain and DNA work, artificial intelligence (AI), or the science of making machines think, has gone from being a fantasy to becoming a reality ... a bad thing for our community would have to be a man named Martin, a multimillionaire, a former rocket scientist, the founder of an IT think tank called Headstrong and the author of 100 textbooks, who...

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