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...House Judiciary Committee. The letter noted that foreign students account for one-third to one-half of all those enrolled in U.S. graduate schools in science and engineering. "It should be no surprise," the executives wrote, "that highly skilled U.S. engineers are not always available on a timely basis." Microchip giant Intel, for example, hired 300 engineers with master's or doctoral degrees last year. About 100 of them came from outside the U.S. "It's a pretty small number percentage-wise," says Tom Waldrop, an Intel spokesman, "but they have a very high effect on the success...
...controversy over a defect in Intel Corp.'s popular Pentium microchip heated up as scientists and engineers accused the company of being too casual in its response to the problem. According to a Nov. 7 article in the Electrical Engineering Times, the flaw in the chip can cause computers to reach incorrect answers in complex division problems approximately once in every 37 billion calculations. Intel discovered the defect last summer, and has since corrected it, but it is offering free replacement chips only to customers with provably esoteric needs. "The chip is fine," said a company spokesman. "Statistically, the average...
...everyone, however, has chosen the cardboardover the microchip...
...Fontana mill is the largest plant bought in the U.S. and taken home by the Chinese, but it is hardly the only one. In North Carolina the Chinese picked up a secondhand nuclear-plant control room, in Pennsylvania they purchased a used microchip-making facility, and in Michigan they bought an auto-engine assembly line. If China's economy keeps going along as it has been, the steel, microchips and engines made in these newly exported plants may ironically come back to America one day -- as imports...
...such changes prove controversial -- but the new look quickly became popular and extensively imitated. Succeeding Walter in 1980, Rudy deftly adapted to new technology that allowed the magazine routinely -- and in spite of breaking news and tight printing schedules -- to use color on every page. Then came the microchip age, and Rudy moved his staff from the traditional design tools -- paper, pencils and razor blades -- to the computer screen. One sign of his success was the National Magazine Award for Excellence in Design, which he won for TIME...