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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Staying in first place this year won't be easy. The Commerce Department said last week that exports in January fell for the third month in a row. While the trade deficit for the month did shrink to $5.77 billion from $6 billion in December, that was largely because of fewer imports. To no one's surprise, the biggest trade imbalance in January was with Japan. But to thwart any hard feelings, Tokyo said it would lower the maximum number of autos it can sell annually in the U.S. by 28%, from 2.3 million to 1.65 million...
...marred by a couple of suspicious lumps. "Fire away," Sugarbaker directs the assisting surgeon. On the screen a tiny pincer appears. Grabbing hold of the lung just above the lesion, the pincer makes a clean slice through the quivering tissue, simultaneously sealing the wound by laying down a triple row of surgical staples. A few more snips and the task is complete. Sugarbaker, chief of thoracic surgery at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital, draws a 10-cm-long sliver of lung through a finger-size hole in the patient's side and sends it for biopsy...
...second year in a row, Harvard's law school placed second behind that of Yale. Other University graduate programs made the top ten. Harvard ranked third for its English department, fourth for economics, sixth for sociology, sixth for history and seventh for psychology...
...Michael Crichton (Knopf; $22). Japan-bashing has never been more exquisitely calibrated for best-sellerdom. There is a whodunit at the heart of this commercial thriller, but the identity of the bad guys is never in any doubt. Lay out some plastic for this novel before publishers' row becomes a subsidiary of Sony...
...height of the gulf crisis last year, someone from the State Department -- presumably under instruction from higher up -- called the U.S. mission at the U.N. demanding to know why Pickering's picture had been on the front page of the New York Times for two days in a row...