But at dawn recently, after walking through Soweto to the sounds of roosters crowing and her sandals slapping against her feet, Mrs. Hanong beheld a vision of urbanity: a stylish, new high-tech bus station.
The new unit features 18 inpatient rooms, a high-tech nurses station for individual patient monitoring, and a specialized airflow system to help protect patients with weakened immune systems.
On Tuesday, joined by Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., the governor identified the many ways New York would spend over $16 billion in federal disaster aid on items like high-tech weather stations and seals for entrances to subway stations.
People sit in these high-tech work stations, with monitors along the walls," Bender said.
After a video preshow, guests find themselves in "the Chevrolet Design Center," a studio packed with high-tech work stations.
In contrast to the high-tech work stations in New Haven, Sosinski's only work surface was a chest-high countertop by the boat's front window that was always piled high with unopened mail, newspaper clippings, notebooks, tide charts and rolls of paper towel and electrical tape.
One, called EarthScope, would create a mobile seismic network and probe California's San Andreas fault (Science, 26 November 1999, p. 1655); the second, known as NEON, would be a string of high-tech field stations for ecologists (Science, 10 December 1999, p. 2068).
LAST week in Rye, drivers who had just parked were clearly unfamiliar with the high-tech parking pay station installed over the summer.
One who did take full advantage of the high-tech equipment the station offered was Peter Campus, who made his seminal "Three Transitions" at WGBH in 1973.
The Antonov An-30 military surveillance aircraft was spotted flying roughly 30 miles from Menwith Hill, a high-tech Nato monitoring station based in north Yorkshire, by 41-year-old semi-professional photographer Steve Bradley.
