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Stevens hopes to head off the parklands proposal with a hastily drafted plan that would preserve a fraction of the acreage in question and place buffer zones under control of a commission that would be free to permit development. But the preservationists are expected to win the battle of Alaska. The public, by using U.S. national parks in ever-increasing numbers, has demonstrated that it needs more wilderness. So has the Carter Administration, which despite its emphasis on energy, pledged last week to place high priority on preserving Alaska's wilderness...
...spheres of niobium, a metal that becomes a superconductor when it is chilled to near absolute zero. When the sphere is levitated in a strong magnetic field, and virtually stripped of electrical charge, any charge that remains-even the minuscule charge of a single electron or, more significantly, a fraction of that charge-can be detected...
...more freedom than the State Department finds in, say, Afghanistan, but how much more is difficult to say. Even when available, figures can be misleading. For example, estimates of the number of prisoners held without trial in the Philippines reach as high as 6,000, but only a small fraction (perhaps 500) qualify as "political prisoners," meaning nonviolent political opponents of the regime...
Whatever happens in the league, Harvard's season will end earlier than it should. "We play a fraction of the matches we could play, and go to a fraction of the tournaments we could go to because of a lack of funds," Martin says...
...from distant points, and efforts are under way to bring in more, it will probably be five years at least before any appreciable supplies of such fuel enter the U.S. to help warm homes and run factories. Even then the amount is unlikely to fill more than a small fraction of U.S. demand...