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Most ominous, the U.S. slump is only part of a worldwide pattern of malaise. In the European Community, more than 11 million people, or 10.3% of the work force, are unemployed. Developing nations from Africa and Asia to Latin America are staggering under a $626 billion foreign-debt load. A string of near defaults on loans to Mexico, Argentina and now Brazil (see box) has rocked the international monetary system...
...pattern was of similar answers, and they happened to be wrong answers." When twelve of the students retook the test, they all passed again. The similarities were "very simple," explained Escalante. "They had the same teacher...
...children who appear to have AIDS are mainly the offspring of high-risk parents. Of the four best-studied patients, two had Haitian parents and two were children of intravenous drug abusers. One child's mother appeared to have AIDS and died of PCP. This pattern provides strong support for the theory that AIDS is spread by an infectious agent. But, says Dr. Richard O'Reilly, an immunologist at New York City's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, "whether it is transmitted by close association after birth or through the placenta, we do not know...
...when Rob says, "Satellite search," the Scott machine takes a numerical snapshot of the sound pattern and compares that picture with patterns Rob has previously recorded. When the machine finds a matching formation, it sends the computer the corresponding command. With some artful jiggering, Gary and Ted have extended HAL'S vocabulary to more than 280 words...
...rest of the meet followed a similar pattern, with Columbia falling short and Harvard grabbing seven of 13 first-place finishes...