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...always maintained a comfortable lead in microprocessors, the "brains" of computers, with about 90% of that market. The gap could widen even further, as U.S. companies roll out new products. Last week Digital Equipment introduced the new Alpha chip, which the Guinness Book of World Records anointed as the fastest microprocessor on the market. But the Americans are also reclaiming lost ground in memory chips. Intel, for instance, is the major producer of "flash" memory chips, one of the fastest- growing segments of the market. Flash chips, which can retain information even when the power is turned off, could...
Prodded by environmentalists and Congress, the Pentagon is beginning to act. So far, officials have identified 10,924 hazardous hot spots at 1,877 installations, including 123 of the Superfund's 1,236 sites. At a time of shrinking defense budgets, environmental cleanup is the fastest-growing category of military expenditure -- up 18%, from $2.9 billion last year to $3.4 billion in new 1993 funding...
...month-old Natural Law Party bases its platform on fundamental laws of nature. Hagelin said it is the fastest-growing political party in the country, with 115 candidates running for Congress in 32 states...
...provide and what wastes it can accommodate. The poorer nations must make monumental efforts to remove incentives for people to have large families. This will require massive social change, including better education and improved access to family planning. With each passing year, it becomes more likely that the fastest- growing nations will be forced to adopt coercive measures, as China has, if they are to stabilize their numbers...
...reality is that Latinos are becoming an increasingly important part of American society in many ways. Latino professors and Latino studies courses at Harvard would educate the community about the fastest growing minority group in the country...