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...Shcharansky spent 3,255 days in the Gulag, the extensive Soviet penal system, almost completely cut off from external contacts. He had only the faintest sense of his international celebrity. "The method the KGB uses against prisoners is to isolate them fully from the outside world," he explains. What is so terrible about this isolation, he believes, is that it often leads a man to begin compromising himself morally "because he has been cut off" from the system of values he ordinarily lives...
...Using prototypes of the Knorr- Suroit sonar technology and submersible cameras, Ryan and Spiess mapped large swatches of ocean floor and took intriguing images of something that Grimm, at least, is convinced resembled the propeller of a ship. Computer enhancement of the pictures, he insists, seemed to show the faintest outlines of bolts. "Only a few ships had propellers so large that they had to bolt the blades on," says Grimm, "so it confirmed my conviction that we had found the Titanic." But when the crew members returned to the site in 1983, violent storms prevented them from verifying...
When he remarks, for example, that he and his colleagues are "quite exacting and self-critical," is there the faintest suggestion of dissent in the Politburo and perhaps of shuffles soon to come? He teases the Reagan Administration about how it should "deal us yet another propaganda blow, say, by suspending the development of one of your new strategic missiles. And we would respond with the same kind of 'propaganda.' " Is that a veiled offer to scrap the U.S.S.R.'s threatening new multiple-warhead ICBM, the SS-24, in exchange for cancellation of the American...
...materials for the restoration. The Great Hall is a maze of scaffolding. Fans hum everywhere, drying out plaster. Bare bulbs hang down all over. Occasionally there is the frantic sound of beating wings, a gull or a pigeon come in through a smashed window. Here and there is the faintest scent...
...motor cars and traffic, seldom catch the music of nature -- the singing of birds, frogs or crickets -- or the wind. These people are biologically illiterate -- environmentally illiterate -- and yet they may fancy themselves well informed, perhaps sophisticated. They may know business trends or politics, yet haven't the faintest idea of what makes the natural world tick. We have biologists, of course, and biochemists. But we really need more bio-engineers, bio-lawyers and bio-politicians...