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...money by selling secret information on microelectronics, computers and signal-processing techniques. "Science and technology is the largest growth industry" in espionage, says Edward O'Malley, an FBI assistant director in charge of the intelligence division. Some recent examples: a Northrop engineer pleaded guilty in March to attempting to transmit Stealth technology to the Soviets for $55,000; the husband of a worker at a Silicon Valley defense firm used his wife's access to sell high-tech documents on ballistic-missile research to Polish intelligence for some $250,000; and in a trial that began last Friday...
...President sits in the Oval Office, that egg of light, as Author John Hersey once described it. He is all wired up to microphones that will transmit his words to the typists. A clutch of aides hover at the fringe, but otherwise Ronald Reagan and his guest are alone, as they have been a dozen times in the past 4˝ years...
...facet of my own experience. My grandparents would never work in a Holocaust museum. They would find it too painful and would probably feel betrayed by how little visitors knew. My parents wouldn’t either. It’s just not how they choose to transmit the story...
...virus does not yet transmit easily from person to person, but recent research suggests that human infections may be more common than previously believed. The Feb. 17 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine reported that one person in Vietnam thought to have died of encephalitis last spring was actually infected with bird flu. The case was misdiagnosed because the patient did not show the respiratory symptoms typical of avian flu. Instead, the virus attacked the brain and the patient fell into a coma before dying. "We must have been missing cases," says Dr. Jeremy Farrar...
...Washington-based magazine Foreign Policy, agreed that the world economy was unlikely to crash. "But there's no doubt that America's adjustment is going to have consequences," he said. "U.S. interest rates matter to the rest of the world. They are a conveyor belt that is going to transmit shock waves to others...