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...simpler level, this screenplay by Hal Barwood and Matthew Robbins, directed by the former, works very well as a hard-charging chiller. The nasty microbe in the lab turns people into murderous psychopaths when it infects them. And they, in turn, convert the facility into a kind of high-tech haunted house. Kathleen Quinlan is attractive as the uninfected security guard most imperiled by these creatures. She may be scared, but never out of her wits. Jeffrey De Munn nicely underplays the independent scientist trying to set things to rights. The rest of the cast is not as strong...
...moment, SDI is still more theory than hardware, and has yet to attract the hordes of high-tech defense lobbyists bred by other weapons systems. But as Star Wars evolves, the usual suspects will no doubt hungrily line up at what Democratic Congressman Norman Dicks of Washington calls a "space barrel." With some estimates of the cost of building SDI ranging up to a trillion dollars, Star Wars could prove to be the most capacious pork barrel of all time. So far, SDI research has been funded to the tune of $2.385 billion ($1.397 billion in the past year), spread...
...college campuses, the Star Wars debate is turning into a high-tech version of the 1960s protests over weapons development and classified research. A group called United Campuses to Prevent Nuclear War has circulated a petition asking scientists not to accept any Government funds for SDI research. Some 2,100 have signed the pledge, many from Cornell, Caltech and M.I.T. They contend that Star Wars research is high-tech hocus-pocus that will escalate the arms race. Some scientists suggest that because the protest has been centered at elite universities, SDI research is being done at less prestigious places. Huffs...
...other high-tech firms are now vying with one another to tap into Japan's telecommunications market. Last April, Japan's national telephone system was converted from a staterun monopoly into a private enterprise. While it is too soon to predict how much business will be captured by foreign firms, the winners are likely to be those companies that can adapt to the special demands of the Japanese market. Says Byron Battle, an undersecretary of economic affairs for the Massachusetts Office of International Trade: "In Japan, you have to sell it their way, not the Great American way." That...
...country changes course The winds of reform have swept over China with unequal force. Sichuan is a showcase for the new agriculture, Shenzhen is a magnet for foreign investment and a high-tech boomtown, but Shanghai remains peculiarly impervious to Deng's goals...