More than ten-thousand high-tech jobs in Minnesota vanished between 2001 and 2002. Minnesota actually did better than the nation as a whole, which saw a twelve percent drop in high-tech jobs in the last two years. Across the country, employers in the industry that led the economic boom of the 1990s are on pace to lay off nearly a quarter million more people this year. But a new industry report says jobs losses in the high-tech sector are slowing down. Kate Rubin is president of the Minnesota High-Tech Association. She says when it comes to the vitality of the high-tech industry, Minnesota typically follows national trends.