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...delicate balance of power, it had been a bad week for Sino-U.S. relations, with Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian planning a visit?er, transit?through the States, and China charging an American citizen with espionage. Then the entrance of a new superpower suddenly made that old bipolar paradigm seem as irrelevant as a WBO title belt...
...Responding effectively to the AIDS crisis requires something of a paradigm shift in economic thinking. Last year, some 5 million people became infected with HIV, 4 million of them in Africa. The World Bank estimates that simply stopping this exponential spread of the disease through basic prevention programs throughout Africa would cost somewhere between $3 billion and $4 billion a year. Before last week's launch of the U.N. war chest to fight the disease, the total investment in fighting the disease in Africa stood at no more than $400 million. And that's exactly why AIDS campaigners slammed...
...Kodak's troubles exemplify the difficulty that any company has in handling paradigm shifts caused by technology. It has plowed billions of dollars into the digital business, which by 2005 should account for almost half its revenues. But its digital-camera division has yet to enter the black. "If you look at the hardware business alone, you'd probably never get into it," says Willy Shih, head of Kodak's Digital and Applied Imaging unit. Kodak is the worldwide leader in film cameras and has lately produced some sleek units. But in digital, Kodak trails Sony...
...goals, the newly arrived Rudenstine cited improving undergraduate education, diversity and student aid. Above all, he intended to “knit the University together” by creating programs between the faculties and introducing the first post-war provost. Rudenstine wanted to shift the age-old University paradigm of “every tub on its own bottom” to “every tub on each other’s bottom,” to create an interdependent relationship between the many tubs—aka faculties—of the University...
...depicting alternative therapies in the positive light they deserve [INNOVATORS, April 16]. In response to the conventional, antiquated medical model in which doctors are always demanding more scientific data and often prescribing procedures and medications that kill or maim, people have come to recognize there is more than one paradigm for healing and thus more than one choice for health care. What if medical practitioners and alternative practitioners learned from one another in kind? There might be hope for a health-care system that needs to heal itself from within! STEPHANIE RAFFELOCK Boulder, Colo...