Word: calif
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Clearly, something must be done about these reactors. Last September, Congressman George Brown (D.-Calif.) introduced a bill that would address this problem. The bill would keep us from sending up any nuclear-powered satellites provided that the Soviets do the same. However, Congress, in an end-of-session rush, didn't consider it. Brown will introduce it again this year, but because of expected opposition from SDI advocates, the bill might have a hard time being signed into...
...likely to be more dropouts from the home-banking business. "For a technology to affect the way we live, it has to be cheap, simple to use and offer a strong reason to use it," says Timothy Bajarin, an analyst at Creative Strategies Research International in Santa Clara, Calif. "So far, for computer banking, those signposts aren't there...
...December 1987 Mitnick was convicted of stealing software via telephone from a Santa Cruz, Calif., company. He got 36 months' probation for that crime, but the record of his offense has somehow vanished from police computers. Federal authorities suspect, although they have not proved, that he also planted a false and damaging story on an electronic financial-news network concerning a company that refused...
...different scale, and perhaps genius ripens most fruitfully in a free and private space. That may explain why 105,000 new service organizations were born between 1982 and 1987. "Volunteers are now expected to solve problems," says Jerri Spoehel of the Volunteer Center of San Fernando Valley, Calif., "not just stuff envelopes...
Bruce Wilcox, president of the Institute for Sustainable Development, an environmental-research organization based in Palo Alto, Calif., declared that solutions to the population challenge will demand "fundamental changes in society." Ingrained cultural attitudes that promote high birthrates will have to be challenged. Many families in poor agrarian societies, for example, see children as a source of labor and a hedge against poverty in old age. People need to be taught that with lower infant mortality, fewer offspring can provide the same measure of security. In some societies, numerous progeny are viewed as symbols of virility. In Kenya's Nyanza...