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...President Reagan is not eager to agree to a total test ban, even if verification procedures could be worked out. And any deal would surely meet fierce opposition from the Pentagon. The military, with support from the major weapons-research laboratories, wants to continue experimenting with its modernized nuclear arsenal, particularly technology that might be used to implement the President's Strategic Defense Initiative. Last Saturday at an under ground site in Pahute Mesa, Nev., northwest of Las Vegas, the U.S. exploded a device (code-named Goldstone) designed to channel the energy of a nuclear blast into a concentrated, powerful...
Miami's People Mover also has glitches, but compared with Detroit's, it has been humming: it is just $2.6 million over budget. Detroit's project was fitful from the start. Eager to get rolling after frequent delays, the promoters broke ground in 1983, although only 3.6% of the on-site engineering had been completed. Not surprisingly, the system has been riddled with defects: 16 of the 173 horizontal guideway beams had to be removed and destroyed in 1984 because of faulty construction. Last month the contractor announced that an additional 14 beams will have to be replaced. Initially budgeted...
...modern quest for a Theory of Everything began not long after Einstein published his theory of general relativity in 1915. Eager to continue breaking new ground, the great scientist next attempted to link his pet force, gravity, to electromagnetism. He pursued this quest without success until his death...
Spence's gingerly treatment of the case did not sit well with some of his academic colleagues. They point out that over the past two decades Harvard, Berkeley and a host of other schools, wary of Government influence but still eager for federal research grants, have set up policies to ensure that no research is secret or subject to prior review. Now the Safran incident has resurrected the thorny question of whose research money is clean and whose is not. One of the Harvard center's defrocked committeemen, Richard N. Frye, denounced the Spence report as a "whitewash" that ignored...
...week that started a million telephones jangling. Eager investors rang their brokers to buy stocks, driving the Dow Jones industrial average up a record 92.91 points to an all-time high of 1792.74. Happy homeowners phoned bankers to refinance their mortgages at interest rates not seen since 1978. Economists called up clients to report that U.S. growth will be more robust than almost anyone had expected. Corporate treasurers got on the speakerphones with their investment bankers in New York City to talk about financing bold projects with multimillion-dollar bond issues...