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Harvard Film Archive. Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts. 24 Quincy St. 495-4700. $5 for students, unless a special event. "One More River/Headstart in Mississippi" at 5:15 p.m. "The Red Desert" at 7:30 p.m. "The Tourist and Burckhardt...
Government scientists who blew up two atomic bombs on the sands of the Nevada desert during the early Cold War were well aware that the fallout could have harmed civilians. Secret documents released by a presidential commission today quote scientists describing the health risk as a necessary "gamble." The1951 Defense Department project sought to study the effects of radioactive fallout -- despite the fact this meant using American citizens as the lab animals. The ground-level explosions were followed by above-ground blasts that continued until the early 1960s. Natural Resources Defense Council historian Stan Norris told TIME Daily that...
...according to those who know him well, either decided to run or decided when he will decide. Many politicos view a Powell run for the White House as a mirage because it rests on a popularity that is broad but untested. Right now he is still the Desert Storm demigod, but once he has to answer attack ads and identify programs to ax, his stature will surely deflate. Even assuming he could survive this inevitable erosion of esteem to retain the margin of victory in November 1996, it's not easy to chart any route that would...
There's enough of the old peacock in John that he still likes to buy things--"I can find a store in the desert"--but now he's more interested in selling them off: the former contents of his house, at Sotheby's last year, and cartloads of old clothes, with the proceeds going to aids charities. His own Elton John aids Foundation-to which he donates all profits from his singles-has raised $5.5 million for care and education...
...project is ever completed, prospectively in 1998, virtually no place on earth will be out of range. Satellites are also making possible commercial use of the Pentagon- developed global positioning system, which was employed by soldiers using handheld monitors during the Gulf War to pinpoint their location in the desert. Private-boat owners have been using GPS to fix their position at sea for the past decade...