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After the entrepreneurs established the new market for ATBs, industry giants Schwinn and Huffy began mass-producing them. Chicago-based Schwinn, long better known for inexpensive children's cycles, now is making top-of-the-line Paramount mountain bikes priced as high as $3,000. Ed Schwinn Jr., who heads the firm co-founded by his family in 1895, concedes that the bicycle business is still fundamentally an industry built on the ideas of backyard inventors. Says he: "We look at what the tinkerers are trying to accomplish and adapt the best of that...
...segment of Naked Hollywood that U.S. viewers will not see features producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, who created such blockbusters as Beverly Hills Cop and Top Gun. Paramount Pictures, where the duo worked until last fall, refused to grant permission to air clips from their movies -- clips that constitute a hefty portion of the episode. The studio claims it was acceding to Simpson and Bruckheimer's demand; they deny it. Producer Nicolas Kent says he is "mystified" at why the pair would be unhappy with the show and is appalled at Paramount's position. Says he of the studio...
...Europe, France has shown remarkable resilience and political staying power. The existential debate has not deflected Mitterrand from his nouveau Gaullism, a policy of working with and through Germany to secure a decisive say over the Continent's future. In the E.C.'s halls of power France remains paramount, and relations with Washington, prickly at the best of times, are on a surer footing...
Some of the fundamental images of the American gallery of national icons have received a dramatic reworking. Gone, or going fast, is the concept of the melting pot, of the U.S. as the paramount place in the world where people came to shed their past in order to forge their future. Gone too is the emphasis on the twin ideals that form the basis of the American experiment: that rights reside in the individual rather than with social or ethnic classes and that all who come to these shores can be assimilated by an open society that transforms disparate peoples...
...meantime, the shortage of donors forces doctors to make wrenching decisions about who lives and who dies. Though medical considerations are paramount, subjective judgments often come into play. Can an uneducated patient handle the sometimes complex follow-up care required after surgery? Should a relative be approached and asked to give up a piece of himself? Should an alcoholic be granted a new liver? Such dilemmas can be far more complex than any challenge posed by the immune system...