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...links that bind users to Microsoft software run deep-down to the level of "plumbing" invisible to the user but of critical importance to the programmer. For example, Microsoft has for several years been using a tool called ole (for object linking and embedding) that makes it easier for users to move information from one Windows application to another-to shuttle an expense report from a spreadsheet to a word-processing document, for example. Apple is developing a competing system, called OpenDoc, that is supposed to run equally well on Windows, Mac and IBM's OS/2. But if a programmer...
...chances are that much more than benefits bind faculty to their jobs at Harvard. Given the tenor of recent benefits debates involving the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, this situation seems especially likely. A combination of research facilities, world-renowned faculty and--dare we say?--students such as those found at Harvard can't easily be duplicated anywhere else...
Factor in the new pressure to control costs, and doctors are in a real bind. The medical profession sees increased danger in the new era of managed care, in which hospitals and clinics must treat more patients more quickly with smaller staffs. "In the rush for cost containment, the caliber of the health-care team may be decreasing," warns the A.M.A.'s Todd...
...issues places him left of center in the Republican Party. Wilson has been progressive on the environment and has signed legislation against gay discrimination and for gun control. More important, his pro-choice stand on abortion rights, immutable since he was a mayor, puts him in a vexing political bind. For while it is increasingly difficult to be elected to statewide office in California today if you are not pro-choice, it may be well-nigh impossible to be nominated by the national Republican Party...
...release, it becomes clear that he is an unabashed optimist about the future of his country. South Africa, he suggests, is a kind of laboratory for the future of race relations around the world. He predicts that the "unique balance of mutual dependency" that made apartheid unworkable will bind the nation together in a kind of multiethnic harmony. Like Mandela, Sparks believes that what unites black and white in South Africa is greater than what divides them...