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While the computer industry offers more products than ever before, the vast majority represent incremental improvements or product refinements, "not leaps and bounds," contends Mitchell Kapor, the creator of the top-selling Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet. Kapor believes the industry has failed to develop products that would make technology easier to use. Says he: "The industry is shooting at the wrong target. It continues to emphasize power at the expense of usability. It's paying too much attention to the engine and not enough to the dashboard...
...elephant has a cease-fire." Conservationists must continue to wage war against poachers and provide people living beside the game reserves with reasons for regarding the elephant as something more than a pest capable of trampling a season's crops. Kenya plans to fence in its vast < game reserves and channel more of the $320 million from tourism into local communities...
Such conditions persist despite Native Americans' vast reservation resources, including large land, mineral and timber holdings as well as 10 percent of the United States' oil reserves, he said...
...from the battle against overpopulation. Until the Reagan years, the U.S. championed the cause of family planning in poorer countries. Then antiabortion lobbyists persuaded the White House to halt U.S. participation in overseas programs that sanctioned abortion. Nowhere is the slogan pro-life more cruelly inappropriate than in the vast famine-stricken regions of the Third World, where birth and death rates are entwined in a vicious spiral. Lester Brown of the Worldwatch Institute notes that 40,000 babies die each day from malnutrition and disease, and that many of these deaths occur in areas where overpopulation has destroyed ecosystems...
Meanwhile, Americans were working on far more valuable computer parts. Using systems called silicon compilers, U.S. engineers have been able to design a vast array of custom chips to suit almost any purpose. These specialized chips can be much more profitable than the commodity chips mass-produced by the Japanese. As more and more instructions are etched onto chips, the balance of power in electronics is shifting from manufacturing prowess, Japan's strength, toward software and design, in which the U.S. excels...