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Finding those opportunities will be Johnson's mission, and Fidelity's frenzied troops will no doubt turn up the dial. They know that as great as the company's service is and as promising as its various ventures may be, consumers can't send their kids to college or buy that vacation home unless Fidelity is in the money. As a former employee says, performance is the sine qua non; if Fidelity does not get back into the top 10%, the whole operation may stall...
...which way the economy will go, the Duke databank, now a part of the Duke Clinical Research Institute, correlates important information about the body--enzyme levels, age, family history--into a prediction of how a given patient will respond to a certain type of treatment. Doctors on five continents dial into the system, type in the critical components of their patient's problem and get a recommendation for treatment based on the thousands of patients who have passed that way before. And of course doctors at Duke routinely use the computer to provide the best treatment possible for their...
...next logical step is connecting the system to the outside world. In fact, "tele-medicine," as doctors refer to a range of such long-distance ministrations, is the latest buzz in medical technology. The idea is simple enough: doctors and computers in advanced research centers should be able to "dial in" to rural areas to diagnose and treat patients, opening up a whole new medical frontier...
With his "economic package" actually losing him support, Dole swung at Clinton for a rise in drug use among youngsters and pushed a school-choice plan that would permit parents to send their children to private and parochial institutions. Whether those notions could have moved the dial will never be known, for as quickly as he raised them, Dole dropped them. He said Clinton had no core, and when that didn't work, he labeled him an old-fashioned liberal, and that didn't work either. Scandal was left, so Dole tried that, eventually lighting on foreign contributions...
...hands of their offspring. "As a child, I liked the little boy and the story but I felt very bad about how he was depicted," says Julius Lester, an African-American writer who, along with illustrator Jerry Pinkney, also black, has reconfigured the book as Sam and The Tigers (Dial). "The original is a little masterpiece," argues illustrator Fred Marcellino, who's white. "Its good qualities really outweigh its racist elements." Marcellino has called his reworking The Story of Little Babaji (HarperCollins...