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Active-optics mirrors can refocus in seconds, but the atmosphere's turbulence can make a star seem to flicker hundreds of times a second. Compensating for the flicker calls for a still experimental system called adaptive optics. Different versions of the equipment are being developed at the University of Hawaii and Johns Hopkins University, as well as in Europe...
...possible through organized popular pressure to make the environment and nature a major political issue, it should be possible to do the same for education. If it is possible to make smoking despised, it should be possible for drug use. And it should be possible to refocus some civic crusades. The antitax movement was an important political force, but it was too blunt and undifferentiated. To reduce the excesses of government bureaucracy, it is not enough to curb its spending powers. It is far more important (and more difficult) to monitor performance and press for efficiency...
Step one for the tobacco industry has been to refocus its marketing strategy. Starting with the premise that only a total ignoramus would start smoking, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company has targeted a minimally educated demographic subgroup: 18 to 24-year-old, white, blue-collar women, a.k.a. "virile women," one of the few groups within which smoking is increasing. (In reality, "18 to 24-year-old" is a euphemism for "teenage," the age group that includes fully nine out of 10 new smokers...
Goldsmith maintains that B.A.T shareholders would be better off if the company were to refocus on the high-profit tobacco business, which is experiencing new growth in Asia and other overseas markets. A veteran conglomerate-buster who served as the model for the swashbuckling Sir Larry Wildman in the 1987 film Wall Street, the 6-ft. 4-in. Goldsmith may have made his point all too well. Now that he has put B.A.T on the block, other raiders may try to top his offer. Or B.A.T may attempt to boost its stock price beyond his reach by launching a restructuring...
...more galvanizing reason is economic performance in an age when a skilled labor force is increasingly important. Tsongas would like to refocus the debate over education funding towards the issue of international economic competition...