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...these recessionary times when so many people are pinching their pennies. Thus everyone with something to sell, from book publishers to automakers, has begun targeting the growing numbers of middle- class blacks with specially designed products and marketing campaigns. "Marketing to African Americans is a competitive imperative," says Ken Smikle, president of the African American Marketing and Media Association. "It's not a question of if firms should market to blacks...
With a mixture of excitement and dread, scientists with the U.S. Geological Survey in Pasadena are rushing to augment an already extensive seismic network with portable instrumentation. "Before the San Andreas goes," reflects geologist Ken Hudnut somberly, "maybe we'll catch a precursor." A hot wind swoops across the desert as Hudnut retrieves a plastic box from under an oleander bush and pops the lid to reveal the small satellite receiver it shields from blowing sand. Nearby, a tripod-mounted antenna straddles a survey pipe like a spindly sentinel. Coded signals beamed down by orbiting ! satellites, Hudnut explains, serve...
Democrats naturally viewed Bush's yanking of Baker back to the White House as a spasm of desperation. Republicans, however, took heart at Baker's move, for they consider him the only man who might save Bush and their party. Ken Duberstein, who served as Ronald Reagan's last chief of staff, quipped that "Baker can't walk on water, but he knows where the rocks are." A highly organized and disciplined manager, Baker is expected to quickly shape up the White House and campaign staffs, which have piled up "counselors to the President" and "senior strategists" like layers...
TECHNOLOGY: Ken Baierlein (Manager); Nora Jupiter, Kevin Kelly, George Mendel, Peter K. Niceberg, Michael M. Sheehan, Lamarr Tsufura...
MEET THE GORES, the Beautiful People of American politics. Barbie and Ken meet Election...