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...announcement posted early Monday morning on his website, film critic Roger Ebert said he is taking his thumbs and walking away from the TV show he helped build into an international brand. "After 33 years on the air, 23 of them with Disney, the studio has decided to take the program in a new direction," he wrote. "I will no longer be associated with it." Ebert's announcement arrived only hours after co-host Richard Roeper, of the Chicago Sun-Times - his on-air companion since 1999 - announced that he too would be leaving At the Movies with Ebert & Roeper...
...Ebert, who began his career as a film critic for the Sun-Times in 1967, started the nationwide show (originally called Sneak Previews) with Siskel on PBS in 1978. The show changed its name to At the Movies and moved to syndication in 1982, and soon became the most popular movie-review show on television. Despite Siskel's death in 1999, from complications related to a brain tumor, the show continued to flourish, first with a series of fill-in critics and finally with Roeper as Ebert's sparring partner...
...enormous technological breakthroughs in at least four areas: sensors, lasers, particle beams and computer programming. Should such advances occur, SDI proponents argue, a reasonably effective Star Wars defense would reduce to virtually zero the number of Soviet intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) getting through outer space to their targets. But critics respond that virtually zero is not enough when nuclear weapons are involved. Moreover, the Soviets have other ways to deliver a bomb--from offshore submarines or cruise missiles, for example, neither of which could be intercepted by proposed SDI technology. SDI planners see their defense as a multilayered ''architecture'' that...
...charges that the military strongman is involved in smuggling drugs and weapons, laundering money and selling U.S. intelligence secrets to Cuba. Most damning, Noriega, who as commander of Panama's armed forces essentially runs the country, was linked to the September 1985 murder of Dr. Hugo Spadafora, a leading critic of the Panamanian army. It is widely believed that Noriega forced Panamanian President Nicolas Ardito Barletta to resign after Barletta signaled his intention to investigate Spadafora's murder. Barletta's successor, Eric Arturo Delvalle, quickly came to Noriega's defense. Delvalle told reporters that all charges against the army chief...
...manufacturing jobs have disappeared since 1979, U.S. industrial output has not declined at all. Overall, the volume of manufacturing output has increased by 23% since 1982, and manufacturing still contributes roughly the same share of gross national product (around 22%) it has for the past 30 years. To critics, however, these seemingly encouraging figures conceal a worrisome ''hollowing out'' of U.S. manufacturing companies. As they see it, many American firms, while contributing their share to the GNP, have become reassembly plants for foreign parts and products. Nowhere is hollowing out more controversial than in the auto industry. Today some...