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COPY CHIEF: Susan L. Blair PRODUCTION MANAGER: Gail Music...
...enemy: cancer. Highly classified imaging techniques used in spy aircraft and satellites will now be adapted to spot breast tumors, according to Clinton Administration officials, who will announce the plan this week. "Defense and CIA capabilities are estimated to be about 10 years ahead of medical imaging," says Dr. Susan Blumenthal, deputy Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services. But researchers believe technology that enables computers to recognize the shadowy outlines of enemy positions -- say, tanks hidden behind trees -- can also be used to pick up the earliest glimmers of lesions in dense breast tissue...
...such reforms, are the teachers' unions. They view recruiting E.A.I. as a veiled attempt at union bashing, since the company was granted a role in negotiating future contracts and in hiring and firing teachers. "We don't have a dollar to spare now," argues Hartford Federation of Teachers head Susan Davis, "and to see a private company come in and take out money that could be put back into the school system worries me." School board president William Meagher was skeptical about the company's promises: "I don't think they've done what they said they would in Baltimore...
ASSISTANT EDITORS: Ursula Nadasdy de Gallo, Andrea Dorfman, Brigid O'Hara-Forster, William Tynan, Sidney Urquhart, Jane Van Tassel (Department Heads); Bernard Baumohl, David Bjerklie, Val Castronovo, Georgia Harbison, Ratu Kamlani, Sue Raffety, Susan M. Reed, Elizabeth Rudulph, Susanne Washburn, Linda Young...
Administration: Susan Lynd, Denise A. Carres, Sheila Charney, Donald N. Collins, Corliss M. Duncan, Ann V. King, Anne D. Moffett, Judith R. Stoler News Desks: Brian Doyle, Waits L. May III, Susanna Schrobsdorff, Pamela H. Thompson, Diana Tollerson, Ann Drury Wellford, Mary Wormley...