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...greatest ironies of the war unfolded only last week, when Henry Kissinger appeared before the Senate Select Committee on POW and MIA Affairs. Not only is Kissinger back in the news--his grumpy, arrogant mug at the top of The New York Times--but it was a soldier from Vietnam who ordered him there...
...computer disks. American Express converts all its paper receipts into digital form for printing and storage. Empire Blue Cross & Blue Shield in New York City uses the process to make digital images of 250,000 claims a day. Even police departments are beginning to use the technology for storing mug shots and fingerprints. Digital-image management is already a $1.8 billion industry, and could grow to $11 billion in North America by 1996, according to BIS Strategic Decisions, a Massachusetts-based consulting firm...
Marvin T. Runyon may never get his mug on a commemorative stamp, but in just one month on the job as Postmaster General, he has already had a bigger impact on the Postal Service's bottom line than the popular Elvis issue. Last Friday, in a dramatic bid to stem 10 straight years of red ink and bureaucratic bloat, he announced cuts of about 30,000 managerial jobs -- including more than half of the top 42 posts -- over the next three months, and a major restructuring of the way the service...
Trouble is, much of this story is open to dispute. Take the tale that as a preteen Perot delivered the Texarkana Gazette in a dangerous neighborhood, riding a horse so that he could escape from customers who might try to mug him. In his 1990 book, Perot: An Unauthorized Biography, journalist Todd Mason suggests that Perot actually rode a bicycle...
...shared stories? The land that rode to riches on the backs of sheep has been shorn of many of its farmers and farm markets. The swagman, that mythical figure who roamed the rural vastness at the turn of the century carrying only a rolled-up blanket, a tin mug and a packet of tea, is now but a name for a Melbourne night spot. A society that once boasted aggressive classlessness had 31,000 millionaires by 1990. Some experts are . worried that Australians can no longer develop a common sense of pride. Ivan Deveson, the former head of Nissan Australia...