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THINK OF THE ICEMAN AS A SORT OF prehistoric Daniel Boone: a leather-clad outdoorsman, equipped with the Stone Age equivalent of a bowie knife and plenty of mountain know-how. Now imagine the reception the roughhewn pioneer might have got if he had shown up, coonskin cap and all, to greet the erudite Thomas Jefferson at Philadelphia's Second Continental Congress -- or if he had strode into the elegant court of Louis XV to mingle with the bewigged nobles of France...
...forces will shrink considerably to enable it to concentrate more of its energies on economic and social advances, but it will continue to provide global outreach with state-of-the-art weapons and an invulnerable nuclear arsenal. The U.S. will have to preserve this role because the technical know-how to build nuclear weapons cannot be abolished no matter how carefully arms-control treaties are drafted. Truly determined governments, among them many smaller nations that covet prestige and power, cannot be prevented from buying or building nuclear arms. The U.S. will have to be prepared to deter nuclear-armed dictators...
Sculley's vision enticed electronics giants Toshiba and Sharp to form alliances with his company earlier this year. Apple is contributing software know-how and product design to manufacture a CD-ROM player with Toshiba and a PDA with Sharp; the Japanese firms are providing manufacturing expertise along with key components such as flat-screen displays. Says Sculley: "We cannot afford to fund these projects by ourselves. These alliances give us a chance to be players in an important growth area." Agrees Toshiba's Takehiko Kotoh: "In the 100-m race, Apple is the top runner. They are very quick...
Those unable to get jobs elsewhere sometimes return as part-time workers to their former employers, where they offer their know-how for substantially less than they had earned before. The ranks of such part-timers climbed 30% last spring, rising from 5 million workers to 6.5 million. The practice is especially prevalent among older workers who have been forced into early retirement but still must work to make ends meet. Overall, analysts expect the number of part-time workers to nearly double in the next few years...
...first it all seemed like a joke. The band members, with names like Oderus Urungus, Techno Destructo, Jizmach the Gusher and Slymenstra Hymen (the group's long female) romped around the stage to a thrashing beat, spitting on, stabbing and biting each other. They employed all their art school know-how to create disgustingly vivid stage scenes of cartoonish mayhem...