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...refreshingly points out a difference between informing and educating in journalism. While USA Today's staff members presumably share humanitarian goals with their peers at other papers, they seem less obsessed with tradition and less impressed by themselves. Color pictures are more attractive, as any black-and-white television watcher can attest. Charts and graphs aid understanding, as any graduate of a high school algebra and trigonometry class knows. Most articles that continue beyond the page they start on fail to compel readers to turn the page. All sad but true facts for the newspaper traditionalist educator...
...clock," Jaeger admitted. " 'I better take my time on the changes,' I thought. The match was going kind of fast." Maybe the simplest description of Navratilova's command now is that she can turn the No. 3 player in the world into a clock watcher. "I'm not unbeatable," Martina says, "but I'm pretty difficult to beat...
...will sell for about $700 and could reach stores in late fall. The machine, fully compatible with the PC, will come with a built-in disc drive and cartridge slot for software. "It will offer the best performance on the market for its price," asserts Clive Smith, a computer watcher with the Yankee Group, a Cambridge, Mass., research firm...
...same time, Atari has not kept up with the fast-paced video-game market. Said one industry watcher: "A game company has to keep ahead technologically-invent and reinvent. If you don't have both the marketing and technical savvy, you're going to get killed." That is indeed what happened, when other video-game manufacturers came out with products that had superior graphics...
...ruddy-faced Yankee who looks as if he stepped out of a John Cheever story, Biggs has a bachelor's degree from Yale and an M.B.A. from New York University. The market watcher keeps in shape for the intense Wall Street action by pumping a bicycle at the Morgan Stanley gym for up to 45 minutes at a time. He believes that an investment manager's most important product is his judgment, and he hones his by reading voraciously, and not just technical journals. Two recent and related devourings: Peter the Great by Robert Massie...