Word: clue
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...witnessed on numerous occasions. The worst example. I came across was a Government course that proposed to teach the political economy of France. Italy, Britain and Germany over a period of several centuries in one semester. Since the majority of the students taking the course didn't have a clue about European history, let alone European polities, the result was a shambles. Since this course also fulfilled the comparative politics requirement for government majors. I was left a little less mystified by the ineptitude of American policy in recent years...
Last week Washington produced the strongest clue yet that South Africa might indeed have become the seventh confirmed member of the world's nuclear club.* The State Department announced that it had an ''indication'' that a ''low-yield nuclear explosion occurred on Sept. 22 in an area of the Indian Ocean and South Atlantic'' between South Africa and Antarctica. Officials disclosed that sensing devices on a U.S. satellite had detected the explosion. What the sensors ''saw'' was a flash of light, which dimmed for a microsecond, then...
...unification of the weak and the electromagnetic forces remained the most promising avenue. "There were two major problems," Glashow recollects, "the mathematical problem, and the 'finiteness' problem. I solved the first, and Steve solved the second." The one clue sprung from the fact that the amount, or quantum of energy, exchanged in the weak interactions, the so-called "intermediate vector boson," was found to have the same value as the quantum of energy exchanged in electromagnetic interaction. The scales were obviously vastly different, as were the distances over which the two forces act, but this mathematical parallel nonetheless represented...
...there normally a connection between a headline and the text that follows? "Connally Blames the Jews" is a catchy title. Blames them for what. I wondered, and what did he say? But the article left me still wondering. Is the clue in the assertion that they voted conservatively...
...Another clue to the philosophical makeup of a group which claims to have no philosophy lies in its membership. The CCC, Goetz said in an interview last week, is made up of tenants, small landlords and homeowners." The CCC deeds on record at the Middlesex County Courthouse show, was actually founded and is led by a group of condominium owners. Of the seven original officers and members who registered the group with City Hall September 20, five have purchased condominiums since August...