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...your article about the Aspen design conference [June 27], the reference to Steven Jobs, chairman of the board of Apple Computer Inc. might be interpreted as suggesting that Jobs considers design "dispensable gift wrapping." On the contrary, Apple is one of the most design-conscious corporate enterprises in America, whose commitment to design goes beyond simple marketing considerations. The most telling evidence of this commitment is exemplified by the products themselves, and in this regard Apple measures up very well...
Joggers in Point Defiance Park near Asarco Inc.'s mammoth copper-smelting plant sometimes complain that they can taste the air on windless days. With 575 workers, the 80-acre smelter, operated by Asarco since 1905, pumps some $35 million annually into the Tacoma, Wash., area economy. Unfortunately, the smelter pumps out arsenic, a deadly cancer-causing poison that is released directly into the atmosphere as a byproduct of copper refining. Last week EPA Administrator William D. Ruckelshaus announced details of a new federal air-quality standard for arsenic emissions. However, he left open a tough choice between...
...prototype, developed by Datakey Inc., located near Minneapolis, is about the same size as an old-fashioned dog tag. Saw-toothed on the edges and made of chocolate-colored plastic, it contains an embedded magnetic bit on which information about a soldier can be electronically recorded and, as needed, scanned by means of a portable microcomputer. Carrying the scanning device into the field, a medic could review a wounded soldier's complete medical history before administering drugs; a platoon leader might check out a soldier's pay or disciplinary record...
...Defectors from the Iranian air force confirm that South Korea has provided these parts as well as spares for the Iranian F-4s. One of them told TIME, in addition, that Agusta, an Italian company operating under agreements with the State Department and Fort Worth-based Bell Helicopter Textron Inc., supplied Iran with Chinook choppers in violation of U.S. licensing rules. Says a Pentagon official: "A lot of countries are buying far more supplies than their air forces could ever use. But we have no way of monitoring resales...