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On one level the issue was money. Aspin, a Wisconsin Democrat, agreed to go along with the Senate's total $302.5 billion for the Pentagon, some $10 billion more than the House had approved. This provides a 3% increase in funding, thus allowing the Pentagon to keep pace with inflation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weapons That Refuse to Die | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

Self-examination for signs of skin cancer is simple, requiring little more than a full-length mirror, a hand mirror to see one's back and a blow-dryer to examine the scalp. "The ability of people to detect skin cancers is tremendous if they're motivated," observes Dr. Robert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Treating Reagan's Pimple | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

To determine if a button or sextant is permeable, the investigators place the object in a container filled with neon, then later examine the item with a mass spectrometer to see if neon has entered it. If the object proves snug, its carbon dioxide is analyzed. Such an operation may...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Air Inapparent | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

The President now has 85 vacancies to fill on the federal bench and 25 nominations waiting in the Senate for confirmation. Perhaps the two most prominent choices are James Buckley, 62, currently president of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, for the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals and Berkeley Law...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Judges with Their Minds Right | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

To perform short-term divination, geologists examine a number of clues. Mild seismic activity in the area, rumblings or the emission of ash and gases are all harbingers of greater things to come. Changes in the snowcaps that cover tall volcanoes may also indicate trouble. In Iceland, for example, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Volcano: In the Belly of the Beast: Scientists know what makes a volcano blow but still cannot say when | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

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