The United States has strong advantages in fields such as materials science, and high-tech start-ups in these areas can prosper.
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This will eventually be the site of Science City, a high-tech park covering nearly 20 square miles, where the Hefei government is offering massive financial incentives to high-tech companies, both local and foreign.
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It is largely rural and dominated by farming interests but boasts a number of high-tech companies and science parks.
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The school incorporates 28 buildings, across a 20 hectare (50 acre) site, with hi-tech classrooms, computers and science laboratories.
In the aftermath of another world war, the city is turned into a fantastic high-tech slum that invites comparison with the science-fiction movie Blade Runner.
Hong Kong also sports the most convenient airport in Asia and the up-to-date tech zones Cyberport and Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks, though both have taken a while to catch on even as new hang-outs spring up in more central locations such as Cocoon.
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With an MBA and background in computer science, she was one of few women working in the high-tech space.
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That same year he became the host of "Blais Off" on the Science Channel, a short-lived show where he used high-tech tools and techniques to prepare traditional dishes like pizza.
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Matloff teaches computer science, and says there's deep public anger over foreign high-tech workers' impact on Americans.
He prefers the latter, noting that the U.S. doesn't produce enough science, math and engineering graduates to fill the open posts in high-tech.
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You take the point: the beauty category is, for all its beauty, somewhat dull, presenting the same sorts of images with the current face plugged in, once in a while throwing in a white-coated lab tech to convince us this is all high science.
In 2006, China's leadership unveiled the "National Medium- and Long-Term Plan for the Development of Science and Technology, " a blueprint for turning China into a tech powerhouse by 2020.
Mr. GIN RAY (Manager, Science City): (Through Translator) We want Hefei to become a top-level, high-tech city.
The architects worked with Pureti, a green-tech manufacturer (and winner of a 2011 "What's New" award from Popular Science), to develop a spray version of a titanium nano particle that, when activated by sunlight, oxidizes airborne particulates and converts them into water vapor and trace amounts of carbon dioxide.
Speaking at the headquarters of the 3M Company, which makes products ranging from post-it notes to high-tech fuels cell components, he called for tax credits for business research, increased money for federal science programs, and he talked about the need to improve math and science skills of American high school students.
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