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...HOUSE (SIMON & Schuster; 287 pages; $22), Stephen McCauley's third novel, a friend tells Clyde, the narrator, "No one cares about novels anymore. No one wants to wade through the obfuscations of fiction. Just pump out all the filthy facts, toss in a chapter on rehab and wrap...
...Eventually, the notion of otherworldly life made the transition out of the pages of philosophy and fiction: in 1894, the wealthy astronomer Percival Lowell built his own observatory in Arizona to try to detect the life he believed existed on Mars. He never found it, but in 1930 Clyde Tombaugh, then an assistant at Lowell Observatory and now a professor emeritus at New Mexico State University, found Pluto. It was the last planet that would be discovered until the 1990s...
Vancil maintained residences in both Belmont, Mass, and Madison, Conn. He is survived by his wife, the former Emily Robinsonl; his mother, Pearl Campbell and stepfather, Clyde Campbell of Columbia, S.C.; a daughter, Virginia Wilkins of Madison, Conn; two sons, Robinson of Madison, Conn. and Richard of Wayland, Mass.; two sisters, Joan Underwood of Columbia, S.C. and Mary Lynn Musgrove of Columbus, Ohio; a stepbrother, George Campbell of Levonia, Mich.; and five grandchildren...
...Never" turned out to be in around 25 years. It was in the mid-1950s that Frederick Reines and the late Clyde Cowan, then at Los Alamos, set out to find Pauli's impossible particle--the research that earned Reines, now at the University of California at Irvine, half of this year's prize. (Cowan was ineligible because Nobels are not awarded posthumously...
...showdown is averted in this spat, another would come soon, and then another, until one shakes to the core the political relations between the two economic superpowers. "If there is maybe one more 'standard' deal, it will be the last one," predicts Clyde Prestowitz, president of the Economic Strategy Institute. Chalmers Johnson, president of the Japan Policy Research Institute, warns, "In the post-cold war period, at a time when security ties are no longer holding the two sides together, trade disputes could become a way of life." Some might reply that U.S.-Japanese trade disputes have been...