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...long-term goal, in theory, is to change Cuba. The SmithKline deal led to long and apparently educational meetings between U.S. executives and Cuban officials such as Concepcion Campa, 48. Campa is director of the state-run Finlay Institute, the Havana bio-research facility at which she created the meningitis vaccine. But she's also a communist Politburo member, and she got a crash course in capitalist haggling during the negotiations, as well as a closer, less ideological understanding of Americans. "It was hard to make sense of all those Anglo-Saxon contract clauses," she told TIME. "But we appreciated...
...Meanwhile, the opposition-run areas complain that the state-run oil company refuses to give them any fuel at all. And Belgrade is saying it has solved the heating problem in the rest of the country by making deals with Slovakia and Iraq, exchanging Serbian copper, food and medicine for Slovak electricity and Saddam Hussein's oil. In the end, it seems that the people most likely to shiver this winter are the ones who voted against Milosevic...
...work mostly outside of the Chinese state-run film studios. As an independent filmmaker, what are your impressions of the American film industry...
Leakey's powerful personality and outspokenness drew the wrath of government insiders. In 1994, following a series of attacks against Leakey in Parliament and the state-run press, Moi announced an investigation into alleged improprieties at the Wildlife Service. Leakey quit. "I could no longer achieve," he says. "Everything was too combative." The simmering animosity between the two men boiled over a year later, when Leakey helped form an opposition party. Though never a major force, the party attracted enough attention to provoke attacks from the ruling Kenya African National Union party...
...Mozart effect has had a pretty good run. Parents all over the U.S. have been playing the Austrian composer's music to their infants and toddlers on the theory that it stimulates brain development. Even a few state governments have got into the act: Georgia and Tennessee are giving classical-music CDs to new mothers, and Florida has mandated that state-run day-care facilities play such music each...