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Dancers were nervous; they didn't practice at home in front of the mirror until their swaggers were perfect, like the alternative crowd did. Even though the DJ sounded like he did nothing but switch the dial from ZOU to KISS all night, and even though women and men dressed to the height of the Tello's aesthetic, no one was looking to make a scene...
...when half of all infants in the Netherlands were placed on their belly before going to sleep, there were 1.3 cases of SIDS per 1,000 babies. (The U.S. rate is 1.7 per 1,000.) After a national campaign to switch sleeping positions, the already low Dutch rate fell to 0.6 cases per 1,000. A similar campaign in Britain, which was launched three years ago and included warnings against parental smoking or keeping the baby too hot, produced equally dramatic results. Last month the government reported that the rate of unexplained infant deaths for England and Wales had been...
...though, the battle is shifting into the area where Bentsen is at his best: lining up votes. Just before a crucial House ballot late last month, the Secretary persuaded two Texas Congressmen to switch and support the budget -- which then passed by three votes more than the minimum needed. From Moscow and Paris last week, where he had gone to confer with Boris Yeltsin and other top foreign leaders, Bentsen spent about 2 1/2 hours every day phoning White House officials, Moynihan and others to begin working out the details of a deal that might be acceptable to the Administration...
...constantly pulse taking" -- measuring the attitudes of his co-workers, his allies and the country. Gergen's fans say this habit helps explain his ability to move easily in a wide circle of public figures, policymakers and journalists. His detractors say it has led him to switch alliances with alarming expedience...
When the elder Owada's two-year teaching stint was over, his daughter remained in the U.S. and went to Harvard, graduating magna cum laude in economics. Her thesis adviser was Jeffrey Sachs, who went on to advise countries around the world on how to switch from controlled to free-market economies. "She had a certain extra dimension, a real analytical mind," he observes. "Her thesis concerned Japan's trade performance after each shock in oil prices during the '70s and '80s, and how the country paid for fuel by increasing exports. She devised computer work that was sophisticated, especially...