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...European researchers came late into the HDTV race, but are discovering that sometimes it pays to be among the tortoises. Says Howard Miller, head of engineering at PBS and a leading expert on HDTV: "Three years ago, it looked as if the U.S. would play no role in this major new technology, but now basic HDTV research work is coming out of American labs...
...Ghali brings strong qualifications to the $202,346-a-year post. He is an expert in international law and comes with a 21-page curriculum vitae replete with degrees, decorations and scholarly writings in three languages. After Anwar Sadat brought him into political life in 1974, Ghali became a key negotiator in the Camp David peace process, and he has helped mediate many quarrels among African nations...
Does all this reflect unalloyed good attitudes? Well, no. In detecting evidence of trouble in the U.S. that Americans themselves see, many Japanese react with sorrow more than anything like contempt. Explains Kazuo Ogura, a senior Foreign Ministry official and expert on U.S.-Japanese relations: "Because Japanese like America and want to admire it, they are frustrated. When they look at America, they see disintegration of the family, drugs, AIDS, middle-class values collapsing. Traditional values are what many Japanese still respect and think important...
...form of tuberculosis that proved impervious to antibiotic therapy. It was the sixth major outbreak of so-called multidrug-resistant TB in the U.S. in the past two years. So far, these cases have been largely confined to AIDS patients and others with weakened immune systems. But experts fear that the disease, which kills about half those it afflicts, could spread to other groups. "TB has once again become a real killer," said Dr. Michael Iseman, a TB expert at Denver's National Jewish Center of Immunology and Respiratory Medicine...
When I was debating in high school, we put a lot of effort into collecting the opinions of experts to support our cases. We would pull out neatly-filed index cards during rounds and fire quotes at our opponents at mind-boggling speeds. What it always came down to, however, was our expert statistics versus theirs. The only thing we ever accomplished was amusing our judges...