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...easy to single out the low point of the trade mission to Japan that George Bush completed last week. Was it that his pleas for stepped-up Japanese purchases of American auto parts belittled the presidency and made him seem the tool of overpaid corporate CEOs? Or that the largely unenforceable agreements he reached were soon denounced as inadequate by the U.S. automobile executives who accompanied him on the journey? Or did the nadir come when the President threw up on the trousers of Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa and then passed out at a state dinner in Tokyo...
...statistical technique called meta-analysis, which enables researchers to pool data from many studies and compare otherwise incomparable results. The technique was recently used in a major study revealing the benefits of aspirin in treating heart disease. "It is emerging as an important tool in medicine," says Dorr, and one that can be deployed without the considerable costs and risks of a large clinical trial...
Even more disturbing than questionable "negotiating" practices, say the high school counselors, is that the discrepancies in aid offers may portend the end of need-based financial aid, as colleges begin to use financial aid as a recruiting tool...
...polymerase chain reaction, a deceptively simple process with an ungainly name, may turn out to be the most important tool for genetics research since Mendel's peas. PCR takes a snippet of DNA and in a matter of hours clones up to a billion perfect copies. In the past year it has proved invaluable in everything from making prenatal diagnoses of genetic diseases to identifying rape suspects from a single sperm cell...
Those ubiquitous CD box sets are not only a wildly successful marketing tool, they can also be a true boon to music lovers -- provided the artist is worthy of such enshrinement. Consider the recent compilations of two of the century's most formative singers. BESSIE SMITH: THE COMPLETE RECORDINGS VOL. 2 (Columbia/Legacy) showcases this humongous godmamma of the blues in full cry, scorching the earth with New Gulf Coast Blues and Dixie Flyer Blues, marvelously backed by the likes of Louis Armstrong and Fletcher Henderson. BILLIE HOLIDAY: THE LEGACY (1933-1958) (Columbia) is a shrewdly chosen 70-cut package from...