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Allan Sandage is angry at his astronomical brethren too, but his beef is just the opposite of Lauer's. The Carnegie Observatories astronomer has spent much of his nearly 40-year career trying to measure the age of the universe; it's a task he inherited from his mentor Edwin Hubble, the legendary scientist who discovered that the universe is expanding and that galaxies exist beyond the Milky Way. For decades, Sandage's results have suggested that the cosmos is 15 billion to 20 billion years old or thereabouts. That fits beautifully with cosmological theories-but almost nobody believes...
...proliferation of such programs has wrought panic among law-enforcement officials and their brethren in the military and intelligence communities, who see it as a serious threat to their ability to police computer crimes and espionage. The U.S. government is trying to suppress development of such unbreakable encryption on two fronts. It is promoting public use of its own approach to the technology, called ``key-escrow encryption,'' which would allow the government to hold keys to any and all encrypted communications. Washington is also vigorously enforcing a ban on the export of encryption software, regardless of whether such software...
...Jews who leave Russia should be going to Israel, even the U.S., but in no case to Germany. ``They are going from one hell to another,'' says Dov Shilansky, a member of the Israeli parliament from the rightist Likud group. ``They are living next to people who killed their brethren.'' But many of those who live in Germany argue that they have a right, even a duty, to remain. ``If all of us fled Germany,'' says Shlomit Tulgan, a student in Berlin, ``then Hitler would have achieved his desire of making Germany free of Jews. We can't let that...
...University funding and support, threatened with a boycott by student groups, and slammed in just about every editorial space on campus (including this one), the punch process last week appeared to be right on schedule. Students walking through the Yard saw not only my classmate but many of his brethren, most of whom were involved in activities that made performing a Michael Jackson cover seem downright straitlaced...
...spending and the global free-trade agreement. And everywhere the rhetoric is getting nastier. North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms felt free to say on CNN that Clinton is not up to the job of Commander in Chief -- a remark that was widely regarded, even by some of Helms' ideological brethren, as very nearly unpatriotic. Earlier in the week the crusty Senator, who will chair the Foreign Relations Committee, dispatched what read like a ransom note to the Administration, threatening tough handling of Clinton foreign policy if next week's vote on the huge free- trade treaty was not delayed until...