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...autobiography, Laurence Olivier remarks that bitchiness can be a "journalist's handiest tool." Perhaps Lord Olivier was thinking mostly of Britain, where the gift for malice, and the appetite for it, is higher than here. An English playwright, Arnold Wesker, once wrote The Journalists, a drama about "the poisonous human need to cut better men down to our size . . . The lilliputian journalist be the interviewee's fame, influence or achievement." That too may be more true in Britain...
...metal rod that conducts high-frequency sound waves into the stone. "The surfaces tend to be pretty hard," says Urologist Robert Kahn of the University of California at San Francisco, "but once the thing is cracked, it falls apart." The fragments are removed by suction or the grabbing tool. Total time from start to finish: between half an hour and two hours, depending on the size, number and chemical composition of the stones...
...does, the results, for both the U.S. and the world economy, could be devastating. The principles of free trade remain essentially valid; the logic of protectionism remains beguiling and essentially self-destructive. Consider one example of how protections can subvert the economy. The American machine-tool industry recently joined the lineup of those seeking protection from foreign competition. The industry has been seriously hurt by the recession and by imports of cheaper or better machine tools from Japan and other countries. Since machine tools are essential to a growing U.S. economy and to its defense, the toolmakers argue, import restrictions...
...lault of the computer, of course, but a consequence of the way the American society might use the computer. "Even in the days of the big mainframe computers, they were a machine for the few," says Katharine Davis Fishman, author of The Computer Establishment. "It was a tool to help the rich get richer. It still is to a large extent...
...Government requires it, modern life requires it, and so it is coming to pass. But the essential element in this sense of inevitability is the way in which the young take to computers: not as just another obligation imposed by adult society but as a game, a pleasure, a tool, a system that fits naturally into their lives. Unlike anyone over 40, these children have grown up witl TV screens; the computer is a screen that responds to them, hooked to a machine that can be programmed to respond the way they want it to. That is power...