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...muscular dollars also have advantages. American tourists have been enjoying foreign vacations this summer at highly attractive prices because of the purchasing power of their dollars. A night in a moderately priced London hotel currently costs about $67, compared with nearly $90 three years ago. Many travelers are so confident the dollar will continue rising that they have been waiting until they reach their destinations to exchange money...
These experiments demonstrated the infant's very early capacity for what psychologists call "intermodal perception"-that is, to combine the brain's perceptions of two different activities, in this case vision and muscular action, which is virtually the first form of thinking. Says Yale's Kessen: "The past 15 to 20 years have demonstrated that the child has a mind. The next several years will be used to find out how it works...
...placed the blame for many ailments associated with VDTs on such environmental factors as poor lighting and stressful office conditions. Summed up Panel Chairman Edward Rinalducci, a professor of psychology at the Georgia Institute of Technology: "Our general conclusion is that eye discomfort, blurred vision and other visual disturbances, muscular aches and stress reported among VDT workers are probably not due to anything inherent in VDT technology...
...once drove his sleek black Audi 5000 from Houston to Fort Worth at speeds approaching 125 m.p.h. "I can't stand someone in front of me on the track," says the speeder, "and I can't stand someone in front of me on the freeway." Compactly muscular at 6 ft. 2 in. and 175 lbs., Lewis now competes for the Santa Monica Track Club, since he was declared scholastically ineligible at Houston last year. But he is finishing his degree in broadcasting and, on the side, restoring a suburban Victorian house. Last summer, while competing in Europe, instead...
...Angeles is world class: if the area seceded, it would have a G.N.P. larger than that of Mexico or Australia. The movie and TV business is only the hot tip of L.A.'s biggest job sector, its service industries, which together employ 882,000 people. There is a muscular side as well, with 869,000 workers in manufacturing, about a third in aerospace and other clean, high-tech industries. But parts of the city could pass for Buffalo. On the waterfront in Long Beach sit stacks of blue and orange cargo containers. In Lynwood, railroad tracks run past auto salvagers...