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The most exotic technique of all is to play laser beams against a window or any surface that vibrates slightly with sound waves. The laser beam senses the minute reverberations and transmits them to a computer that converts them back into sound. Richard Heffernan, vice president of Information Security Associates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Art of High-Tech Snooping | 4/20/1987 | See Source »

Few stage effects are harder to bring off for modern audiences than a manifestation of the supernatural. Try as directors may for some Freudian hallucinatory explanation of Macbeth, for example, the story makes little sense unless the witches are actual witches. This doesn't mean the supernatural must be portrayed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: A Down-to-Earth Happy Medium: BLITHE SPIRIT | 4/13/1987 | See Source »

As more Americans discover the exotic delights of the People's Republic of China and as business contacts between China and the U.S. multiply, there is growing curiosity about the state of Chinese cuisine and the quality of restaurants -- what will be offered and how it will taste. To find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: From Peking To Canton | 4/13/1987 | See Source »

The underground tunnel will form a giant ring 53 miles in circumference. Streams of subatomic particles traveling at nearly the speed of light will be held on course by huge electromagnets. When one stream of high-speed protons smashes into another stream moving in the opposite direction, the force of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Super Push for a Supercollider | 4/13/1987 | See Source »

The opinion on the ABM treaty is particularly vulnerable. Sofaer queried nobody from the original negotiating team except Paul Nitze, the President's special adviser on arms control. A recognized authority on the pact, Nitze supported Sofaer's conclusion that the agreement did not forbid research and testing of "exotic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: George Shultz's Feisty Lawyer Abraham Sofaer draws fire as State Department legal adviser | 4/6/1987 | See Source »

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