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...found problems-fragments of chromosomes, aberrant rings formed out of broken chromosome bits. That suggested 30% had chromosome damage, compared with less than 1% nationally. But other scientists considered the tests far from conclusive. They had been given to people who already had health complaints rather than to a random sampling of Love Canalers. Nor did Biogenics follow the usual procedure of comparing the results with studies of cells from a control group of similar age and sex. Other factors-radiation, drugs or viruses-could have produced similar results...
...quietly trying to displace the U.S., where integrated circuits were developed early in the 1960s, as the world's leading designer and producer of computer hardware. Already Japanese companies control nearly 25% of the world chip market. Japanese manufacturers have made serious inroads in the 16K RAM (for random access memory) chip, which is capable of containing 16,384 separate bits of information. Japanese producers now control 40% of that U.S. market...
...about his intensity, while others were berating an acquiescence to academic loads. He could satisfy no one, so he left Harvard--or it left him. Stephanie Walsh, the women's swim coach who leaves this year after four seasons, has faced many of the same problems. Speak to any random handful of Harvard women swimmers and you'll get the range of opinions about Walsh: "She's too intense," or "she's not serious enough...
...Random House; 181 pages...
...Random Winds, Plain