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...stubborn when it comes to space. Only 21 months after the Apollo 1 fire took the lives of three astronauts in 1967, NASA was flying again. The recovery time for the Challenger disaster was longer but still less than three years. Americans have suffered a lot of loss and hung a lot of crape since September of 2001, and war drums beating, they are likely to hang still more. Nations, like people, can sometimes grow too tired to be brave. At the same time, doing one thing--and doing it exceedingly well--can be a remarkable tonic. In the bright...
...keeping the peace in the waiting room may be contributing to one of the most troubling issues facing medicine today. Worldwide, overuse of antibiotics is increasing the resistance of bacteria to drugs, leading to stubborn, virulent infections that are invulnerable to almost everything doctors can throw at them. Already, more than 90% of some bacteria species in Asia have developed strong immunity to frequently administered antibiotics such as penicillin and ampicillin, according to the World Health Organization. Despite growing awareness of the problem, health-care experts now fear that widespread misuse of antibiotics in populous developing countries such as China...
Another sign that women have yet to be fully accepted as executives is a stubborn salary gap. Separate studies by Harvard, the Rand Corp., Stanford and the Columbia University Graduate School of Business have all documented the same trend. According to Mary Anne Devanna, who conducted the Columbia study released last year, female M.B.A.s entering the work force are paid the same starting salaries as men with the same qualifications (1985 average: $28,584). But within ten years, the women fall behind by 20% in pay, regardless of the company they work for or their jobs...
President Reagan might argue that he was never all that stubborn. At five previous summits, Reagan's charm was an important unifying influence, even when his free-market stands led to ideological splits among the allies. But now that the U.S. has assumed a new, pragmatic role in economic summitry, the Great Communicator may prove to be even more beguiling in Tokyo. --By George Russell. Reported by Jay Branegan and Christopher Redman/Washington
...watched the President go through his public paces last week-a joint press conference with British Prime Minister Tony Blair, speeches touting Social Security reform and the Patriot Act-and his stubborn consistency was both admirable and annoying. His unwillingness to drop Social Security reform in the face of lousy polling results is certainly admirable. He has changed the emphasis from semi-privatization of old-age pensions (although he still favors that change) to the solvency of the system, and he has proposed a creative solution, progressive indexing, which would modulate benefits according to income, with the poor receiving proportionately...