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...huge and so pervasive that its decisions affect almost everything that happens in the computer field. At present, IBM makes close to two-thirds of the large computers used in Europe. One European Community official likened the information IBM will disclose to the details an automaker might provide tire manufacturers to make certain that their tires fit the wheels of the company's cars. IBM, for its part, was relieved to conclude the long-running dispute, which lifted a cloud from its European operations. IBM Chairman John Opel said the settlement satisfies the Community "without requiring us to make...
...cannot imagine. I had a husband who worked at his job until 7 and 8 p.m. taking care of other people's children. That's when I remember reading Jean Kerr, who would sit out in her car and hide, reading the car-manual section on tire pressure. It's ridiculous. The whole thing is ridiculous." Then a deep breath: "It's the core of laughter. If you can't make it better, you can laugh...
...Plympton St, one can find four bookstores. The Star Book Shop is one, and across the street, in the former site of the late Harvard Pizza, is McIntyre and Moore Booksellers (30 Plympton St.), with used and rare books. Another place, for those who tire of prose, is the famous Grolier Book Shop (6 Plymton St.), alive since 1927. "Minimum of prose" reads the sign in the window, and they speak the truth. Tall bookcases house poetry collections, little magazines, books about poets and their works, and casettes of readings. Special orders and mail orders can be done here...
...round: psychiatrists tell them that their problem appears to be physical; internists and surgeons tell them they ought to have their head examined. Western doctors, trained to cure acute illness, are often frustrated by patients with vague pain that refuses to go away. So are the families, who quickly tire of hearing complaints. Dejected, guilt-ridden and increasingly isolated, many pain patients eventually seek care outside standard medicine: herbal treatments, chiropractic, faith healing and, too often, quackery. Says Fields of U.C.S.F.: "They fall through the cracks...
...poor. The U.S.'s 6,400 Customs agents, who try to prevent drug trafficking, currency violations and the export of high technology to the Soviet Union, have assigned low priority to the wildlife trade. Jokes a former Justice Department attorney: "They don't do much unless a tire with a grand eclectus in it falls in their laps." Regulation is often left to the Fish and Wildlife Service, which has 35 inspectors. This is an insufficient number even for spot checks on wildlife imports, which last year included 123 million tropical fish, 5 million other live animals...