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...1950s. Maybe his flair has been inherited; they named their first son Attila. At age 2, Elvis looked at skating on TV and announced that he wanted to do that. It was nearly three years before the Stojkos relented, but the rest is history: Elvis has been in high-level competition for six years...
...weeks ago, when it became apparent that last-ditch trade talks in Washington were breaking down, Hosokawa quietly dispatched a high-level envoy to head off a conflict. When that failed, he sent an even higher intermediary, Foreign Minister Tsutomu Hata. But a Thursday breakfast meeting between Hata and U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor was ended abruptly by Kantor, who complained that Hata had brought nothing new. After Hosokawa arrived later that day, Hata asked for one last, late-night session. But after three more hours of talks that broke up at 4 a.m., there was still no progress...
Selective departments simply don't want toadmit people who can't do high-level work,professors say, and their concern is for theunderqualified students...
...Advancement of Science, points out that many of the century's most important scientific advances -- from Einstein's theories of relativity to Watson and Crick's DNA double helix -- came out of just this kind of "pure" research. Lederman supports the President's efforts to bring more coherence and high-level attention to science policy, but he warns the Administration not to put its eggs into too few baskets. "There is not enough wisdom in the world to say what projects are going to have big payoffs," Lederman observes...
Bargaining on these central issues is still only prospective. The U.S.-North Korean talks at the U.N. are just a hopeful prelude to yet another round of high-level negotiations. The agreement Pyongyang and Washington were talking about last week is simply a reprise of one made last summer, when Pyongyang told the U.S. it would permit routine inspections and resume talks with South Korea. The North never fulfilled those promises, and it must do so in order to get to the next, third, substantive round of talks with the U.S. That is where the key issues...