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...space. Weinberger has been leading the fight within the Administration for a "broader" interpretation of the treaty, which emphasizes an appendage that may allow the development of systems based on "physical principles" that were unknown when the treaty was written. The State Department agreed that this interpretation is "legally correct," but Secretary of State George Shultz has so far been able to prevent the Administration from abandoning the more restrictive reading that has been in force for 15 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Star Wars to Smart Rocks | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

...GENERAL TENOR of the majority opinion is correct: the Ad Board has taken a step in the right direction, and there are several more steps which it should take. However, the Ad Board should not allow accused students to confront those who are called as witnesses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dissenting Opinion | 2/11/1987 | See Source »

...published. In the early 1970s, Rubbia championed a conclusion erroneously drawn from an experiment to measure the probability of particle collisions in an accelerator. Other CERN researchers arrived at a contrary conclusion. But Rubbia, convinced he was right, opposed publication of their work. The competition turned out to be correct. In the mid-1970s, Rubbia collaborated with two Americans in an experiment at Fermilab, near Chicago, on interactions of ghostly particles called neutrinos, and drew an interpretation that the team's underlings considered dubious. Rubbia publicly hailed the work as an important breakthrough; others later proved him wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: How To Win a Nobel Prize | 2/9/1987 | See Source »

...much as we all hate to agree with anything Secretary of Education William Bennett says, he was correct this fall when he claimed that contact between teachers and students outside the classroom is essential aspect of education...

Author: By Matthew H. Joseph, | Title: CAMPUS CRITIC | 2/7/1987 | See Source »

...from San Diego so I am in a position to confirm her observations. She is correct; people of Mexican heritage, both citizens and aliens, dominate the bottom of San Diego's socio-economic ladder. But that is not the whole of the story...

Author: By Eric GOULIAN L, | Title: MAIL: | 2/7/1987 | See Source »

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