In recent years, the IRS has adopted faster, high-tech methods of filing.

This aircraft tested high-tech methods for operating from a short runway.

The tests - even the latest high-tech methods - detect only some of the drugs available to athletes at all levels, amateur and professional.

Low- or high-tech methods, including indigenous measures, may turn these arid fields to rich farmlands.

Ms. Raymond, who counts herself a radical feminist, sees high-tech methods of conception as little more than "brutality with a therapeutic face."

And triumph because, with high-tech investigative methods, they are increasingly able to expose artistic impostors.

The best-known high-tech method is eBay, which claims to have sold 12 million items since 1995.

But the authorities have used a variety of high-tech methods to make it difficult for government opponents to use the Web or spread their message widely.

And you'll note that I prefer the somewhat old-fashioned personal touch to high-tech methods.

But investing heavily in seemingly high-tech methods like behavioral profiling isn't the answer, and may make air travel less safe on the whole.