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...where, oh, where has my little dog gone?" That old musical question now has a modern answer. A California-based company called Infopet is selling a - computer-age tag: a microchip that is easily implanted between a pet's shoulder blades. The semiconductor carries a ten-digit code, which can be read by a scanner. When the code is punched into Infopet's computers, an animal's finder can obtain such data as the pet's license number, medical condition and, most important, the owner's phone number...
...Department of the Central Committee. The apparatchik there said he had "no idea." Kohan's secretary then called the Committee's General Department, which refused to supply any information. Next she tried a back channel, asking a Soviet magazine editor for the number to call. Kohan then got the answer he needed (249 members) from the Central Committee's Department for Party Building and Cadre Work. Reflecting on that experience, says Kohan, "I have enormous sympathy for Mikhail Gorbachev and the struggles he faces every day with the party bureaucracy...
There was no need to ask. As the Kremlin emissaries filed onto the stage, the answer was written all over their faces. The normally dour Lukyanov let a grin slip. The balding and bespectacled Yakovlev looked like a schoolboy who had just received straight A's. After praising the plenum as a "major step . . . away from an authoritarian-bureaucr atic model of socialism toward a democratic society that has opted for socialism," Yakovlev was asked how the meeting had affected Gorbachev's position. A smile, then the reply: "Very, very positively...
Viljoen argues that it is now time for the A.N.C. to stop talking about continuing armed struggle and offer some conciliatory gesture. "It is only fair," he says, "that in answer to the considerable strides the State President has taken, some steps should be taken on the other side to narrow the gap." Viljoen expects that Mandela will be not just a facilitator of talks but a central figure in negotiating a new South African constitution. "His stature and qualities are quite clear to anybody who has ever talked with him," said Viljoen. At the same time, he said...
...hope what is going to happen is they will pass it, and them we will be getting an answer shortly and then have a followup with specific requests," said PBHA steering committee member Stephan J. Klasen '91, also a member of the homeless committee...