Word: developers
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...come indications that Japan is ahead in developing many of the building blocks of 21st century technology. Last week a presidential panel reported that U.S. efforts to exploit recent breakthroughs in superconductivity were seriously fragmented alongside Japan's. The Japanese have not only filed more than 2,000 patents worldwide, but have already started to develop motors and generators using the superconductors. U.S. projects are still in the planning stage and, in the words of the report, "unlikely to survive what we believe will be a long-distance race...
...confers high status on manufacturers and engineers. But a little Japanese-style teamwork, in which companies pool their resources on long-term research, could do wonders in the U.S. "The Japanese don't share all their secrets either," says John Young, CEO of Hewlett-Packard. "They get people to develop the basic technology, and then they go home and build like crazy...
...Childless women who started menstruating before age 13 and had been on the Pill for eight to eleven years were nearly three times as likely to develop breast cancer as comparable women who had not used oral contraceptives...
...Department of Energy contracted a study into the possible dangers of sending a nuclear reactor into orbit. Steven Aftergood, who heads the Committee to Bridge the Gap, a public interest group that concentrates on nuclear policy issues, knew that there was a joint DOE-SDI-NASA project to develop the SP-100, a space-based nuclear reactor. The SP-100 is in its final design stages, and a prototype is to be constructed in the next few years; deployment is tentatively scheduled for the mid- or late-1990s. Aftergood requested the DOE study through the Freedom of Information...
...South Yemen's leaders, President Haidar Abu Bakr al Attas, who ranks No. 3 in the leadership hierarchy, candidly admits his country's "mistakes in the past" of trying to export socialist revolution and says, "We are not exporters of our ideas. We are here for one purpose, to develop our country so that we can improve the lives of our people...