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Computer manufacturers have responded to health concerns by shielding their products against radiation leakage and introducing tiltable models with anti- glare features. "When you look at the recommendations for how the screens should be designed, you find that most of the newer computer models already . have the improvements," Stock says. "The problem is that many of the VDTs that are being used in the workplace have been around for ten or 15 years...
After Pan Am turned it in for a newer plane last November, No. 19921 was leased to a Honduran airline, SAHSA, for about $130,000 a month. SAHSA shares the plane with another Honduran carrier, TAN. Based these days in the capital city of Tegucigalpa, the aging airliner, a veteran of approximately 65,000 flights, carries about 1,000 passengers a day on several routes, north to Miami and Guatemala, and south to El Salvador and Panama. During 20 years of service, No. 19921 has outlived two of its airlines: PSA and PWA both merged into other companies...
...something good. Politics mattered. Like other times when the country gave up its individual dreams for a collective vision -- during the World Wars, the Depression -- there seemed to be a brief moment in the '60s when people believed that one person, by force of character, could seek a newer world. "There is," says Kennedy's old speech writer Adam Walinsky, "a lot of nostalgia for this country as it used...
Long before the scandal, Swaggart was a source of dissension. Despite his high-tech ministry and opulent life-style, Swaggart was ever on the hunt for heresy and "worldliness," championing the simpler Pentecostalism of old. He targeted dozens of the newer congregations that are experiencing the greatest U.S. growth. Many participate in the interdenominational charismatic movement, which often tolerates modern feel-good theologies and rejects old taboos (drinking, smoking, dancing). Remarks Tommy Reid, pastor of a 5,000-member church near Buffalo: "I certainly don't want to be from the backwoods, where there are rules and regulations a mile...
Margaret Chirgwin is one of about 12 British students studying in the United States on a newer scholarship. The John F. Kennedy Memorial Scholarship normally funds a year at Harvard or MIT and includes all fees and a living allowance of about $9000. Chirgwin, who received her undergraduate degree in medicine at Cambridge and a graduate degree at Oxford, is now working towards a masters in public administration at the Kennedy School. Although "being in the K-School means you don't get to see a lot of undergraduates," Chirgwin is also taking a beginning Spanish course with undergraduates...