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...Washington, reaction to the test of the relatively small device of less than 20 kilotons, designed to assess the effect of a nuclear explosion on missile warheads and components, split largely along party lines. Senator John Warner, the Virginia Republican, supported the continuation of testing. Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts declared that the Administration was "squandering one of the best opportunities in many years to achieve a comprehensive test-ban treaty." At the Nevada test site, almost 100 protesters from Greenpeace, the international environmental and antinuclear organization, were arrested in the course of the week. Whatever else the detonation...
...attempt to assess what happened to the spirit of Geneva must begin with the question of whether it really existed at all. In the sense of a genuine urge to compose differences, it probably never did. At most, there was an ephemeral belief by each leader that for the moment it suited his purposes to be seen chatting politely around a cozy fire with the other. But those purposes were quite different...
...dimension: tests showed low-level concentrations of heptachlor in the breast milk of some 70 Arkansas mothers. The women were among several thousand who brought samples of their breast milk to laboratories around the state. As more than 1,000 additional women clamored for tests, doctors tried to assess the risk of continued breast feeding. While the effects of the heptachlor have yet to be determined, nursing mothers face the unsettling prospect of having contaminated their children...
Institutional analysis attempts to assess and improve government operations. One of Kelman's five books compares safety and health regulation in Sweden...
Need some easy money? How about $500 for six afternoons of sleeping in your bedroom, listening to music, and eating junk food? And don't forget about filling out those questionaires every hour which assess the "mood-altering effects" of the three pills you swallowed...