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...Development Center in Buena Park, Calif. Her department works with 45 crack kids, up to kindergarten age. When she observes them having trouble sitting in a chair or picking up a pencil, she despairs for their future. "Of the children we see," says Kutschka, "none will be able to function in a normal life-style without some kind of sheltered living arrangement...
Critics reply that it is misleading to emphasize the speed and maneuverability of comparable Soviet planes. More important in the age of first-look, first-kill aircraft is how far combatants can see, and that is largely a function of computers and electronics, where the U.S. retains a huge edge...
...gloom in Kuwait these days. Beneath the funereal skies lies a country that is recovering its spirit. Electricity and water plants are working again, and the phones are beginning to function too. In the capital the giant two-floor Sultana Supermarket is once more a cornucopia of fresh vegetables and delicacies from around the world...
Conceived by brother-sister team Anita Chaffee and Tim Russell, the $16.35 No Moon costs at least three times as much as its low-end equivalents. But, says Chaffee, "for the extra money you are getting a gown that has much more function, design and comfort to it." After a trial order of 12 dozen from La Jolla's Green Hospital in January 1990, the gowns were boosted by exposure at the California Association of Hospitals and Health Systems convention in Palm Springs last October and an article in Modern Healthcare magazine in January. Result: the company has received inquiries...
...Still, much of the portrait -- Nancy's difficult relationship with her children, her obsessive attention to detail as a White House hostess -- rings true. Treated simply as a compendium of all the scraps a team of diligent researchers could gather about Nancy Reagan, it serves at least one historical function. It reveals that many, many people didn't like...