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...sizable chunk of Caltech's $50 million sponsored research budget comes from the Defense Department, but almost all of that amount goes for basic rather than applied research. Few new restrictions effect this money, according to Lindstrom, though researchers are required to submit their findings to the sponsor and publisher simultaneously. Because the publishing process takes between six months and two years before the findings appear, however, "the sponsor already has plenty of time to take a look at it, and talking to the professor is necessary," he says...
...outcome was just, but the killers' commanders have not been charged. Moreover, the proceeding was a show trial, conducted for the benefit of Americans: no death squad member has yet been convicted of murdering a Salvadoran. Last year Congress made a $19 million chunk of Salvadoran aid contingent on a verdict in the nuns' case. Said New York Democratic Congressman Ted Weiss: "It's a $19 million verdict. The military knew it would lose it unless there was a trial...
...state of the sitcom is no laughing matter. Though half-hour comedies still make up a considerable chunk of the network schedules-22 will be on next fall, compared with 24 last fall- the attrition rate has become alarming. Of the 20 sitcoms introduced by the three networks in the past year, only four-CBS' Kate & Allie and After MASH, ABC's Webster and NBC's Night Court-were renewed for next season. In the ratings for the 1983-84 season, the genre made its worst showing in 30 years: not a single sitcom that...
...made objects have fallen from orbit, but the number that survived the atmospheric plunge to hit the earth is unknown. Shards have landed on more than a dozen nations, including Zambia, Finland and Nepal. As early as 1961, Premier Fidel Castro indignantly charged that a re-entering chunk of a U.S. spacecraft had struck and killed a Cuban cow. A year later, a 21-lb. metal cylinder landed at the intersection of North 8th and Park streets in Manitowoc, Wis. The debris was later identified by the U.S. Air Force as a fragment of Soviet Sputnik 4, launched two years...
Administrators and faculty blame most of the schools current financial problems on the loss of the City and Regional Planning Program which was transferred to the Kennedy School of Government in 1980, taking with it a large chunk of students and revenue. The GSD has run at a deficit every year since...