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...race to dominate the predicted $40 billion market for high-definition television, the next- generation technology that will provide TV pictures as clear as a movie screen's. Last week Zenith Electronics, the only remaining major American manufacturer of TV sets, and AT&T, a power in microchip research, said they would pool their research to develop an HDTV system by 1993. Zenith will provide the broadcasting technology, and AT&T will provide the microelectronics...
...partners hope to draw $13 million in financing for their $24 million venture from a special Pentagon fund for HDTV research. But just two days after the Zenith-AT&T announcement, the U.S. division of Japan's Sony acknowledged that it had submitted a bid for the Pentagon's entire $30 million research contract. "I don't think Sony needs a U.S. subsidy," groused Republican Representative Don Ritter of Pennsylvania, who has sponsored legislation that would create more HDTV incentives for American industry. "It was open bidding," counters Sony spokesman Haruyuki Machida. Who will get the money? Don't touch...
...combatants are turning to even more exotic technologies. A small Denver company called Innovisions Research has introduced a line of Stealth attachments, which fasten to the front of an automobile and use microwave- absorbing materials like those in the Stealth bomber to reduce the car's visibility to police radar. The company claims that a speeding vehicle that would normally be detected from 4,000 ft. away may not show up in Smokey's gun until...
...recommending the changes, safety experts tacitly acknowledged that more repairs and replacement should be done automatically as a plane ages rather than after inspections reveal problems. "Everybody in the industry is on the alert now," says Jerome Lederer, founder of the Virginia- based International Flight Safety Foundation, an aviation research group. "Aging aircraft can be a very, very serious problem...
Many Americans believe firmly in the notion of better health through better eating. What bothers them is the specifics: Just how much of what foods, for example, are they supposed to be consuming? Last week, in a massive new report by the National Research Council, the public received the best answer yet. The 1,300-page document, titled Diet and Health: Implications for Reducing Chronic Disease Risk, sets forth the most comprehensive and detailed set of dietary guidelines ever...