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...that measure, Bantam is the latest big winner. Whether its victory turns out to be Pyrrhic, however, will depend on what General Schwarzkopf has to say -- and whether the American public, with its fleeting attention span for celebrities, still wants to hear...
...drastic need of renovation. The 100-year-old agency has become a technology museum. Its forecasters still launch old- fashioned balloons -- 70 of them twice a day -- to take readings in the atmosphere. They use refrigerator-size computers that have less power than the average desktop machine. And they depend on radar equipment that runs on World War II-type vacuum tubes. This creaking system is dangerously prone to breakdowns. In one notorious instance in the winter of 1988, the radar sentinel in North Carolina was out of service for 10 days, during which a batch of tornadoes tore...
What the budget cutters forgot is that the Weather Service is one of the few government operations that give every American a tangible benefit for his tax dollar. Not only do picnicgoers count on the predictions to save them from a sprinkling, but thousands of businesses depend on the NWS for their very survival -- from airlines plotting the most efficient flight path to utilities trying to meet peak-load demands. Farmers, fishermen, oil drillers, construction companies, snowmakers, moviemakers, grain speculators and baseball umpires all have an urgent interest in accurate weather predictions. With hats in hand, NWS officials tried...
...Ayalas did not passively accept their daughter's fate. They knew from their doctors that the best hope for Anissa lay in a marrow transplant from a sibling, but the marrow of her only brother, Airon, was incompatible. Her life, it seemed, could depend on a sibling who did not yet exist...
...that the economy is going through the painful transition from communism to capitalism, Czechoslovakia is learning how hard it is to shut down such an important industry. As many as 80,000 jobs, the bulk of them in the restive and depressed region of Slovakia, depend on it. The federal government has pledged to cut output to 25% of 1988 levels by 1993, but already Slovak politicians have slowed down that timetable to stave off mass unemployment. Last month federal Prime Minister Marian Calfa took a scolding from his Israeli counterpart, Yitzhak Shamir, over a still pending agreement to sell...