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...labor Democrats determined to avoid being railroaded into another NAFTA agreement. Nonetheless, that sent a message to America's potential trade partners: Don't bother to negotiate comprehensive agreements with the President, because he has no authority to deliver. The fast-track vote ended negotiations over the inclusion of Chile in NAFTA, and has left President Clinton pretty much on the sidelines of regional free-trade initiatives since then...
...story is the same all over the world. In the high Andes of northern Chile, five more 8-m-class telescopes are either finished or nearing completion, while peaks in Arizona, Texas and South Africa too boast scopes more powerful than anything known to science just a decade...
...People argued at the time that it would be crazy to rely on computers because they might fail," recalls Mountain, whose Gemini telescopes in Hawaii and Chile were built on the European model. "But when you think about it, planes are controlled by onboard computers, and those computers essentially never fail...
...precise focus of a truly huge telescope without actually having the thing built. Instead, light is combined from widely separated telescopes--the two Kecks, say, whose observatory building was designed with a basement-level chamber for that purpose, or two or more of the four VLT telescopes in Chile. The system is dauntingly tricky and complex, but its astonishing precision will let astronomers tease out the details of galactic structures and distant solar systems as never before...
...even this remarkable technology could become obsolete--along with the giant telescopes on Mauna Kea, Chile and everywhere else--if the grandiose plans of the world's astronomers come to pass over the next couple of decades. Telescope designers are already thinking about the next generation of ground-based supergiant telescopes, devices that will range in size from 30 m (100 ft.) across to a staggering 100 m, or 330 ft.--a telescope mirror wider than the length of a football field. These will probably be scaled-up versions of the Kecks, using hundreds of individual mirrors aligned to make...