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...intelligent, curious, persistent, tough and straight as a laser beam? If you are all of the above -- and also black, Hispanic, Asian Native American or a woman -- you may qualify for the Federal Bureau of Investigation and get your college tuition paid by the government...
Spears, clubs and battle-axes might seem to be totally outmoded weapons in an age of laser-guided bombs. But in South Africa they retain some power -- in one sense, more power than Winnie Mandela. Contrary to many expectations, it is the carrying of those supposedly "ceremonial" weapons by Zulus, not the possible jailing of Winnie Mandela, that has emerged as the chief obstacle to continuation of black-white negotiations on the nation's future...
...Persian Gulf, the country faces an even more daunting technological challenge back home: how to make educational electronics achieve its potential. Today 2.7 million computers have been installed in the nation's 100,000 schools -- roughly 1 for every 16 students -- along with an avalanche of disk drives, modems, laser printers and videodisk players. Estimated cost: $4 billion a year. But experts say the impact of all this technology on the basic operation of most classrooms is practically nil. Effective and innovative uses of computers in the classroom can be found, but they are about as rare as whale sightings...
...government rescued it by guaranteeing $1.5 billion of the company's loans. Now Chrysler is desperately seeking to raise $500 million to help it hold the road. To do that, the struggling automaker may sell Mitsubishi an increased stake in the Diamond-Star Motors joint venture that builds Plymouth Laser and Mitsubishi Eclipse models in Illinois. Chrysler has also boosted its cost-reduction target from $1 billion to $3 billion...
...Stealth fighter-bombers located their target in the 4 a.m. darkness over Baghdad. Their laser-guided, 2,000-lb. bombs hit their mark with pinpoint accuracy. They cut through 12 ft. of reinforced concrete and exploded, peeling away the protective cover and destroying the bunker...