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...situation is reversed. With this week's broadcast, the U.S. will seize the lead in the HDTV race, having successfully changed the venue of the battle: from the world of radio- and TV-signal processing, in which the Japanese excel, to the digital world of computers, which is dominated by U.S. firms. "The entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well in the U.S.," says Donald Rumsfeld, former Secretary of Defense and now chairman of General Instrument, the Chicago-based company that spearheaded the push to digital HDTV...
...clicked open his Microsoft Excel and began punching in teams schedules and equations of possible scenarios...
...attract young scholars, give them an opportunity to shine in a junior faculty position with the temptation of tenure and then drop them--even the best of them--on the threshold. By the time a junior professor comes up for tenure, he or she is usually just starting to excel and develop a base of scholarship. Translation: no tenure. It's a frustrating policy, both for teachers and for students, but as Peterson told me, shrugging, "It's part of life at Harvard...
...says that the school gives athletes the education they need for a secure future. They are students first, but they still have the opportunity to excel in sports, he says...
...tasks at which women outperformed men. Looking at it from the point of view of human evolution, Silverman and Eals reasoned that while men may have developed strong spatial skills in response to evolutionary pressures to be successful hunters, women would have needed other types of visual skills to excel as gatherers and foragers of food...