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TIME's board members expressed hope that the improving trade deficit would dampen sentiment in Congress next year to produce a barrier-laden trade bill. Yet Congress may be tempted to pass protectionist measures under the cover of the new, sexier buzz word of competitiveness, according to Board Member Charles Schultze, a senior fellow at Washington's Brookings Institution and former chief economic adviser to President Carter. Schultze warned that under the patriotic banner of competitiveness, overzealous legislators may fail to differentiate between healthy steps to boost efficiency (example: increased worker training) and potentially harmful measures to shelter industries (example...
...tossed myself over the barrier and started across the field when I saw that there was someone at work over to my left. A group of people picking, a smaller group of people watching, a truck, baskets of strawberries, German shepards--big ol' dogs. Inching closer, the pickers were darker than those watching...
...Sheila Findley: an outstanding young backstroker who may well leave her name on the Harvard record boards before she leaves here. The Champaign, Ill., native has already broken the minute barrier in the 100 backstroke this season...
...AIDS victim. In semen, the virus rides as a passenger, probably in the disease-fighting white blood cells in the fluid. During intercourse, the white blood cells containing the AIDS virus alight on the mucous membranes inside the rectum or the vagina. Unlike the skin, which is an efficient barrier to the virus, the mucous membrane is a much thinner tissue and is more susceptible to infection. If microscopic tears occur in the membranes during sexual contact, these may act as passageways for the virus. But some studies in animals indicate that even tears may not be necessary for transmission...
...fact far smaller than the wavelength of visible light. That makes them too diminutive to be seen with the most powerful optical microscopes. But in 1931 the invention of the electron microscope -- for which German Physicist Ernst Ruska finally won the Nobel Prize this year -- broke the light barrier. The new instrument -- along with a technique called X-ray crystallography (in which X rays are diffracted through crystallized virus particles to reveal their molecular structure) -- at last provided a view of the bizarre and startling world of the tiny creatures...