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...winner of the royal sweepstakes has several distinct advantages over some of the also-rans. Unlike several of Charles' flames, she held up extremely well under the daunting barrage of publicity accorded a royal romance. While one former contender, Princess Marie Astrid of Luxembourg, is Catholic, Lady Diana is an Anglican and thus presents no legal obstacle to marriage with the man who, as King, will head the Church of England. Unlike another of the Prince's dates, the lovely Davina Sheffield, she is also what Fleet Street calls "a girl without a past." This is a matter...
Students and a professor expressed their opposition to U.S. aid to El Salvador at two distinct forums last night...
...tiny (average height 5 ft.) Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert are the oldest human inhabitants of southern Africa and one of the oldest distinct races of mankind. They speak a unique and difficult language, which one anthropologist describes as "an array of weird phonemes-clickings, croakings and raspings." They believe God hurled to earth a piece of turf that broke into pieces; the pieces became nations and the particles of dust their own minute, wandering tribe. Today only a few of the 55,000 remaining Bushmen still pursue their ancient way of life as nomadic hunters, tracking game across...
...best things in the universe come in small packages. Since the revolution in physics early in the century, scientists have thought the neutrino--a sub-atomic particle distinct from protons and neutrons--to be no more than a massless bundle of energy. Recent research suggests, however, that some of these "little neutrons" of the sub-atomic family might actually be very dense particles of matter, capable of exerting a gravitational pull...
...tente is also both controversial and politically difficult: arms control. Jimmy Carter tried but failed to protect SALT from becoming a hostage to the overall climate of the superpower relationship. That failure resulted partly from the widespread impression that he naively viewed arms control as an enterprise distinct from-and more righteous than -defense and national security. As long as the arms controllers stereotype themselves as peace-loving good guys vs. the warmongering bad guys of the Pentagon...