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...earth's gravity, information that helps keep missiles on target. Parked far out in space are the Defense Department's Vela satellites, which watch out for bursts of high-energy radiation that may indicate a nuclear explosion in the atmosphere, or the eruption of a distant celestial body. Under development is a system called Navstar (for Navigation Satellite Timing and Ranging) that will enable nuclear submarines and other vessels to know their position anywhere in the world within a matter of inches, another factor in firing missiles with deadly accuracy...
Seated so far apart, at the distant points of a triangle, the Nurse chatters away while Lady Capulet (Thania Papas) conveys all the glamorous awkwardness of a pampered preppie mom, and Juliet Claudia Silver) sits in gawky adolescent silence...
...Rather's supercharged manner and a dazzling array of computer-generated graphics, was second, with 11.5%. NBC, with a presentation about halfway between CBS's dazzle and ABC's drowse (and with a stadium-type Scoreboard that was maddeningly difficult to read) ran its now customary distant third, with...
...Israel signals the presence of anti-Semitism. Of course, the relationship is by no means categorical--many Jews and Judeophiles themselves, for example, have vehemently attacked Tel Aviv's foreign policy in recent months. And the idea that anti-Semitism could warp people's views on political issues seem distant to most. It's easy to forget that only 40 years ago, one of the most civilized nations on the globe carried out the systematic slaughter of six million people out of pure anti-Semitism. The frequent and sometimes offhand mention of the Holocaust obscures how real, timely, and savage...
...much more creative," Epps said in an interview "I don't think we have a tradition of showing that to our college administrators and our students," Epps, who heads the College Task Force, views yesterday's meeting as an important step in reversing the trend toward distant, impractical administrating. "We tend to react to the problems of the present in terms of solutions from the past," Epps said, emphasizing the importance of the new data from the surveys "I think it's time to clear the decks and start again...