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Gorbachev's prestige has helped attract Green Cross board members such as Javier Perez de Cuellar, former Secretary-General of the U.N., and former Japanese Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu. Other trustees range from astronomer Carl Sagan to Rene Felber, the former President of Switzerland. Ultimately, Gorbachev envisions a network of...
You might argue that my goal--emphasizing what we have in common in order to bring students together (what President Neil L. Rudenstine has frighteningly called "intermingling")--is impossible to achieve in an institutionalized setting. That may be true. But using those institutions to amplify our differences surely cannot be...
Proceedings at the interception workshop were tumultuous. But there was general agreement about the basic strategy: detect the threatening object and dispatch a warhead-tipped rocket to intercept it and explode, nudging it into a new orbit that would carry it safely past Earth. For a small asteroid detected years...
From the wheeled cart to the printing press, from the telephone to the airplane, inventions have enormously expanded the repertoire of human capabilities, and this trend will continue, even accelerate. In this century computers have provided instant access to awesome number-crunching power and a vast storehouse of information. In...
We recognize that pay raises won't always amplify productivity, but in this case many of the workers are earning small enough amounts that they must constantly worry about life's basics. People tend not to be very happy or productive at work if they are worried about finding the...