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Although Attia describes his approach as low-tech, his patients receive dozens of tests, some of them outside the medical mainstream: full-body MRIs, body-fat-composition scans, DNA analyses.
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Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
The contrast between this sophisticated machine and the very low-tech manner in which engineers travel along the pipe really delighted me.
—Paula L. Woods, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2024
In a clearing at the edge of the river, the miners had driven rows of cut saplings into the dirt—a low-tech defense against landing helicopters.
—Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
Why would Christian Gheorghe, a refugee from communist Romania, travel to the US with nothing, and who would go on to create several highly successful enterprise software businesses, try and transform the famously low-tech Fashion business?
—Bruce Rogers, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
Europe is trying to tame a supply chain that’s fractured, low-tech, disorderly and rife for abuse by thousands of small farmers and surreptitious middlemen.
—Mumbi Gitau, Fortune Europe, 27 Feb. 2024
Some ornithologists are trying to resolve these conflicts with a low-tech approach: voting.
—Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2024
Iran's drive to enhance its naval capabilities aligns with the Houthis’ own military aspirations, providing the group with a crucial advantage in acquiring more low-tech, cost-effective support for their agile forces in the Strait of Bab al-Mandab.
—Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar, Foreign Affairs, 29 Jan. 2024
The bulk of the camp remains decidedly low-tech (outdoor communal showers, cabins with no A/C), but management has imbued it with a hip, design-forward spirit that's proven perennially popular with both trendy Midwesterners and coastal types in search of an off-grid retreat.
—Dan Koday, Travel + Leisure, 26 Jan. 2024
Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
The contrast between this sophisticated machine and the very low-tech manner in which engineers travel along the pipe really delighted me.
—Paula L. Woods, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2024
In a clearing at the edge of the river, the miners had driven rows of cut saplings into the dirt—a low-tech defense against landing helicopters.
—Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
Why would Christian Gheorghe, a refugee from communist Romania, travel to the US with nothing, and who would go on to create several highly successful enterprise software businesses, try and transform the famously low-tech Fashion business?
—Bruce Rogers, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
Europe is trying to tame a supply chain that’s fractured, low-tech, disorderly and rife for abuse by thousands of small farmers and surreptitious middlemen.
—Mumbi Gitau, Fortune Europe, 27 Feb. 2024
Some ornithologists are trying to resolve these conflicts with a low-tech approach: voting.
—Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2024
Iran's drive to enhance its naval capabilities aligns with the Houthis’ own military aspirations, providing the group with a crucial advantage in acquiring more low-tech, cost-effective support for their agile forces in the Strait of Bab al-Mandab.
—Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar, Foreign Affairs, 29 Jan. 2024
The bulk of the camp remains decidedly low-tech (outdoor communal showers, cabins with no A/C), but management has imbued it with a hip, design-forward spirit that's proven perennially popular with both trendy Midwesterners and coastal types in search of an off-grid retreat.
—Dan Koday, Travel + Leisure, 26 Jan. 2024
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“Low-tech.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/low-tech. Accessed 25 Apr. 2024.
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