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...Fowler, together with three colleagues, Sir Fred Hoyle and Margaret and Geoffrey Burbidge, provided the answer. In exquisite detail, they showed how the stellar furnaces forge progressively heavier atoms out of lighter ones. They provided a number of pathways for the fusion reactions, including one in which a giant star eventually explodes in a super nova and unleashes forces powerful enough to create the heaviest known naturally occurring elements such as uranium. Fowler subsequently refined these ideas so he could predict exactly what ele ments would be found in a particular type of star. These predictions have been al most...
McFarlane, a conservative but no ideologue, is diligent and has a great facility for detail, particularly in the arcane realm of nuclear arms control. Earlier this year he helped persuade Reagan to temper his arms-control stance to win congressional support for the MX missile. For the past twelve weeks he has performed ably as a special envoy to the Middle East, opening channels to Syria in the Lebanese negotiations. McFarlane is no theoretician in the Kissinger-Brzezinski mold, but he is intimate with the substance of national security. As a no-nonsense National Security Adviser, McFarlane would have...
...Whining about the scaling down of the latest model Cadillac limos, Buckley writes. "This simply would not do: I use the car constantly, require the room, privacy, and my own temperature gauge (for the back seat beyond the glass partition.)" But not to stop there, he goes on to detail the "usual market solution" in the form of a company in Texas that chops normal Cadillacs in half, stuffing them with new space and elegance. This "usual market solution" may enthrall the Polo shirt and Godiva chocolate set, but it's highly unlikely to draw new Republicans into the ranks...
...said he will meet again with students in about two weeks to discuss the matter in greater detail...
Wajda constructs the contest of the duel between these two remarkable men with admirable skill. He sticks closely to historical detail, even mentioning Robespierre's illness in the month prior to Danton's return to Paris and using Robespierre's actual words in the deruncistory speech he delivers before the Convention. Only rarely does his scene setting tend toward excess or degenerate into same dropping as in Robespierre's visit to the studio of Jacques Louis David, where the great artist is finishing his famous "Death of Marat...