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...McKee: "You can just throw it into the back of your pickup, run out to the site and throw it into the water." Prices are also dropping for such devices as side-scan sonar, which generates high-resolution images of the ocean bottom, and sub-bottom sonar, which can distinguish the shape of buried objects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Down into the Deep | 8/11/1986 | See Source »

...underscore their civil rights strategy and distinguish themselves from the religious Right, some militants rejected the commission's first 36 recommendations, which call for stronger antiobscenity measures. Other feminists consider porn a symptom of sexism, not a cause. Says Nan Hunter: "Sexual abuse is not caused by violent sexual movies any more than war is caused by Rambo." But many agree with the commission that porn is linked to sexual assault. NOW President Eleanor Smeal says that feminist work with rape victims and battered wives points up "the influence of violent pornography firsthand." But, she adds, "we don't want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pornography: the Feminist Dilemma | 7/21/1986 | See Source »

...real logical flaw in Bok's arguments is that he can not distinguish between divestment as an economically-motivated act or as a morally-motivated one. It is time that the University stop viewing Harvard's divestment as an economic issue and instead come to see it for what it could be--a significant political and moral step on the way to a larger national solution...

Author: By Maia E. Harris, | Title: Bok's Empty Words | 7/18/1986 | See Source »

...found that shallow grooves at the front of the tracks were typical of dinosaurs, not humans, and that the tracks widened at the front more than human prints would. It was not until later, Kuban recalls, that he noticed toeprints, outlined in the same bluish-gray material that helps distinguish the tracks from the tan-ivory surrounding rock. Further study revealed similar tracks, but with distinct toeprints...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Defeat for Strict Creationists | 6/30/1986 | See Source »

...meteor were to burst in the atmosphere tomorrow, Shoemaker says, "the Soviets and the U.S. would know what it was" and not react militarily. Their detectors could distinguish between a nuclear explosion, which generates million-degree temperatures, X rays and gamma rays, and an exploding meteor, which would produce considerably lower temperatures and no deadly radiation. But smaller nations, unaware of the nature of the blast, might react violently. Says Shoemaker: "Suppose it happens over Syria or Pakistan?" He proposes that the U.S. immediately try to determine whether the explosion was of cosmic origin and notify the affected nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Dealing with Threats From Space | 6/9/1986 | See Source »

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