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Despite a long career in local and state government, Schaefer has never developed a tolerance for red tape. During his temporary stewardship at the department of human resources last month, he encountered the kind of bureaucratic bottleneck that irks him. An office had run out of food-stamp forms. "I asked why," says the Governor, "especially since the forms came from an office not 20 feet away." A clerk told him they were "supposed to come through the system," at which Schaefer snapped, "Why don't you just walk over and get them?" She did. On a more sympathetic note...
...Plevy, the Governor's director of legal and labor issues, who spent her month at the department of health and mental hygiene. Plevy, appalled by the extreme understaffing she encountered in the maximum-security ward of a hospital for the criminally insane, has already taken action to cut red tape on personnel matters. But her report will raise other prickly questions. "Resources are limited," she says. "Should we pay for AZT when you know it will only make that one better for a while, or should we use that money for prevention? Should Medicaid pay to keep comatose patients alive...
...life with Islamic Jihad: "Tiny, tiny cells, constant blindfolds, prolonged days in the dark, sometimes weeks without light." The guards, he said, "just could not control the urge to beat very badly." When he and McCarthy were moved from one vermin-infested flat to another, they were covered with tape and stuffed under the floorboards of a truck...
...road to hackerdom starts modestly enough. All anyone really needs for editing videotape is a camcorder and a VCR to copy selected segments from one tape onto another. Unfortunately, most camcorders and VCRs intersperse their cuts with irritating patches of electronic noise and make duplicates that look as if they've been smeared with a video paintbrush. So the would-be video artist soon finds himself trading in his primitive equipment for improved models (costing up to $1,200) with "flying erase heads," which allow smooth splicing, and one of the new formats (Hi8 or S-VHS) that...
...patience and split-second timing. That's where the computers come in. With an automated editing machine -- like Videonics' $599 DirectED PLUS -- instructions for making cuts can be punched into a keyboard as the footage rolls by on a TV screen. The computer remembers the markings, and when the tape is played again, the machine automatically splices together the chosen sequences. Computers can also be used to generate titles, graphics and fancy scene shifts -- like the "tumble," in which one image seems to turn over to reveal another...