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...DIED. DONALD J. CRAM, 82, UCLA professor and researcher who shared the 1987 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for synthesizing molecules that mimicked the way enzymes work in the body, and were later used in sensors and electrodes; of cancer; in Palm Desert, Calif...
Will Hong Kong follow Beijing's lead and ban Falun Gong? The territory's leaders are sending out mixed signals. Last week, Sir Donald Tsang, head of Hong Kong's civil service, appeared to assert that the government would not outlaw the group. But his words were carefully ambiguous. And just days earlier, his boss, Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa, stood up before the territory's Legislative Council and declared: "There is no doubt Falun Gong is an evil cult." That statement has been broadly interpreted as a precursor for a tough anticult bill. And if such a bill...
...There was bold talk of "skipping a generation" of military weaponry. Bullet-headed Defense analyst/visionary Andrew Marshall, who has been scaring the calcified Pentagon hierarchy for decades, was put in charge of the review. And the administration's big guns - Bush, Cheney, Powell and once-and-current Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld - had the clout to make bold and necessary changes where Clinton feared to tread...
...evidence of naked greed on Wall Street is, and long has been, as plain as the words spilling from bankers' mouths. Bear Stearns boss Ace Greenberg once said he didn't give a hoot about job applicants' education so long as they had "a deep desire to become rich." Donald Trump opined that "you can't be too greedy." Who can forget the greed-is-good speech from the felon Ivan Boesky, memorialized in the 1987 movie Wall Street...
...terraforming (as scientists call it) a neighboring world is not the only exit strategy. Donald Korycansky of the University of California at Santa Cruz and his collaborators suggest that Earth could be edged out of harm's way with a gravitational slingshot, a trick long used to boost the speed of planetary probes. Earth would be the spacecraft, grabbing orbital energy from a passing asteroid. That would increase Earth's speed and enlarge its orbit. Repeated every few thousand years, Korycansky & Co. reckon, such flybys could stretch Earth's habitable lifetime by billions of years...