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Most scientific contributions to military technology are aimed at future war, a far-off, fast-racing conflict between supersonic bombers, atom-armed missiles and man-carrying spacecraft. But more mundane problems have not been neglected by the men in laboratories. With none of the rocket-boosted publicity that swirls around multimillion-dollar projects, technicians are busily turning out new weapons to use on such nasty contemporary difficulties as riots at home and small-scale insurrection abroad. Behind all these devices is the concept of "necessary minimum force," which means no more power than is necessary to disperse rioters without killing...
...boxed in by several kinds of competition. They are often outwitted by smaller, local supermarket chains-such as Florida's Publix, Texas' J. Weingarten Inc., California's Lucky Stores-whose managers are more sensitive to neighborhood tastes and do not have to clear decisions with far-off headquarters. The chains are also being nicked by a new phenomenon, the discount food store, where housewives pick their packaged goods from open packing cases instead of neat shelves, and pay prices generally 6% below those in the chains. Most of all, the national supermarkets are giving ground...
What mysterious influence, the puzzled astronomers asked, can make so large an object pulsate in so short a time as 13 years? Perhaps quasars are not galaxies at all, despite appearances. Perhaps in the far-off depths of space unknown physical laws are at work. Perhaps something can move faster than light. Scientists are impatiently searching for answers...
...Kremlin would scrap the Virgin Lands experiment. Sure enough, an official declaration last week implied just that. After spending $7.4 billion and drafting 350,000 fulltime farmers to work on the dubious project, the regime seemed to feel it was time to stop cultivating additional acreage in the far-off Virgin Lands, concentrate instead on raising output in the more fertile regions of European Russia...
...scientists tested their new dating system on tektites found in Canada and the U.S. All proved to be 34 million years old. Impactites from the Clearwater Lake crater in northern Quebec and from far-off Libya have the same age. Other tests show that tektites found in Czechoslovakia pair up with impactites from an ancient meteor crater in Germany. Both are 15 million years old. An impactite from Tasmania is 700,000 years old, the same age as tektites found in Australia, Indonesia and Southeast Asia...