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...that it had approved commercial production of a new vaccine against hepatitis B, a virus that causes an incurable and sometimes fatal liver disease and strikes an estimated 200,000 new victims every year in the U.S. Developed by Merck, the New Jersey-based pharmaceutical giant, in partnership with Chiron, a small (1985 sales: $6 million) biotech firm in Emeryville, Calif., the product is the first genetically engineered vaccine approved for human use. "We're delighted that FDA has expressed such a positive view about the usefulness of recombinant technology for vaccines," said Stephen Sherwin, the director of clinical research...
Television crews get better footage than ever because new lightweight videotape cameras, called minicams, give them greater mobility. Another important advance is the Chiron, a device that projects symbols, graphs and subtitles on the screen. The key words of a major speech can now easily be shown, and complicated economic stories can be untangled with Chiron-generated charts and tables. But doubts linger about how TV journalists will use their new technical skills. Bill Moyers places the challenge on Arledge's lap: "The test is whether Roone's talent for technology will be spent making the important interesting...
...labor to give visual excitement to the taped voices of ABC correspondents, patching quick-shifting background scenes, stunting with double dissolves and freeze shots to fill the exact 47 or 73 seconds allotted a story by the producer. Then comes a final mixing of words and pictures, with a Chiron machine imposing labels or texts in front of the pictures, and a computer called the Quantel-a marvelous machine that Roone Arledge first used for some of his tricky sports effects-sucking in, widening out or moving around pictures on the screen. "Zapping the cornea," ABC's style...
...composite of the man and his interests. Of course, this can be good or bad, depending primarily on whether you find a writer's background interesting. But the Updike admirer will be delighted, feeling instantly a companion to his sympathies, and discovering again the compassionate intelligence that sprung Rabbit, Chiron and others on us as sylvan metaphors for American life...
...Centaur, by John Updike. A Greek myth in imaginative modern dress, with a woebegone high school teacher cast in the role of the tragic centaur Chiron...