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Peterson says that Harvard will have to contend with the national drought of young academics if it decides to expand the Faculty...
...limit the cracks in the union to the Baltic region, he has certainly been underestimating the Georgians. The 5.4 million people of this small Caucasian republic have never forgotten the brief period of independence they enjoyed between 1918 and 1921, when invading Bolshevik forces imposed Soviet rule. The Georgians contend that they were illegally forced into the union, in violation of a 1920 "noninterference" treaty with Moscow...
...presents a dilemma for cigarette makers, brewers and distillers. If they fight the tide too strenuously, they risk further damage to their public image. But if they reduce their advertising profile too readily, their outlets for marketing could be extremely limited. In their defense, tobacco- and alcohol-industry groups contend that curbs on advertising violate their First Amendment rights to advertise products that are, after all, legal. "These warning-label bills are just another attempt to get around that," says Lauria, the Tobacco Institute spokesman...
...stake. Proponents insist that the SSC is necessary to keep the U.S. in the forefront of particle-physics research. Americans dominated the field from the mid-1940s to the 1970s, but Europe's CERN started stealing much of the glory in the 1980s. Without the SSC, its proponents contend, many of the best American physicists will emigrate to Europe. In fact, the brain drain has already begun: last year, for the first time, the number of American experimenters working at CERN surpassed the total number of scientists from CERN's 14 member countries who had moved to U.S. research centers...
...Estonians contend that, technically speaking, they are not seceding. They are simply restoring the sovereignty that Moscow guaranteed them "unconditionally and for all time" in 1920 -- then violated under the terms of the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, which led to Stalin's annexation of the Baltics. Estonian legislators want the issue of independence placed on the agenda for a Helsinki conference that Gorbachev has proposed to lay the foundation for his much touted "common European home." Legalists in Tallinn cite the Austrian State Treaty of 1955, which guaranteed the country's neutrality in exchange for the withdrawal of Soviet troops...