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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...real important question is whether theneutrino has mass at all," said Francis M. Pipkin,chairman of the physics department. He added thatneutrinos may account for some of the "missingmass" in the universe which astronomers theorizeshould exist but which they have yet to find...

Author: By Benjamin R. Miller, | Title: Astronomers Observe Supernova | 4/11/1987 | See Source »

...irony in her flash appraisal runs through David Herbert Donald's lengthy biography of Wolfe. Where, if indeed they exist, are the proper boundaries between genius and social being? Must a person's success in one category be contingent upon his success in the other...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: In the Wolfe's Den | 4/6/1987 | See Source »

Many CBS insiders concede that inefficiencies do exist. The network's news budget has grown almost 250% in just nine years, and even allowing for inflation it is hard to argue that the quality and amount of coverage have proportionately increased. With limited broadcast time available, many CBS correspondents are underutilized. Some staffers noted wryly that Pappas got more airtime after being fired than before. "Who is really going to miss the Seattle bureau?" asks a veteran CBS correspondent. Stories in that area will now be handled by the Los Angeles bureau. Other bureaus will similarly pick up the slack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Hard Times at a Can-Do Network | 3/23/1987 | See Source »

...cantons, the book suggests, should be the 306 magisterial districts that already exist in South Africa. Each canton would have its own parliament and possibly its own constitution. Every level of government would be barred from passing laws that discriminate on racial grounds and would be required to apply all laws equally to all races. "In other words," write the authors, "government would be color-blind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa 306 Solutions to a Baffling Problem | 3/23/1987 | See Source »

Walsh last week persuaded the House Iranscam committee to go along with his request for delay. He had a harder time convincing the Senators. "The independent counsel wishes the committees didn't exist," says a source close to the Senate panel. "We wish he didn't exist. The Congress wants to let in the sunlight. The independent counsel has to work in grand jury secrecy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Timing Tiff: Immunity now - or later? | 3/23/1987 | See Source »

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