31.   Researchers say the technology could provide enormous savings of time and money.

32.   Some lawmakers say the technology provides better protection against ID fraud and would make it tougher for terrorists to use phony identification to enter the country or board airplanes.

33.   Since then, technology has provided constant counterpoint to the Titanic heritage.

34.   Spread-spectrum technology provides an answer to these problems.

35.   Technology has provided more efficient tractors and conveyer belts, but no machine can reduce the human effort required for harvest.

36.   Teligent and its investors are betting that wireless technology can provide comparable capacity.

37.   Technology has provided more tools to fight frost, but there are times when technology can do little in the face of the elements.

38.   That technology also provided access to oil and gas once seen as unreachable because of deep water or geologic challenges.

39.   That technology provides Halliburton an early entree into projects, potentially leading to valuable equipment and service contracts.

40.   The hope is that seemingly cold technology can provide support and even warmth for the aging.