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...crucial, and in the coming years they must be forced upon world leaders. The sheer size and sophistication of the U.S. and Soviet arsenals have increased so dramatically in recent years that there is now a tremendous danger of losing control of these forces. Battlefield weapons on the European frontier, for example, present the threat of elevating a conventional conflict to a type of war that even the most experienced generals concede is almost impossible to visualize. Proliferation to nations with no shake in or conception of global nuclear balance has yet to raise a specific threat, but within...
...years ago, biotechnology emerged as the glamorous new frontier of industrial science. The glittering promise of tremendous financial and intellectual rewards led to the emergence of several hundred biotechnological companies, many of which turned to the country's top-notch universities for leadership and research guidance. The increasing numbers of professors who left their institutions or tried to balance academic and private sector commitments sparked concern about the ethical implications for universities...
...vision carries an unmistakably romantic hue; it conjures up an image of a time when there were only men and the frontier, when people's ambitions awaited realization on a new and untainted continent. It recalls that long period of history--some say it has yet to end--when America meant the land of dreams for millions here and abroad. The means toward the fulfillment of this vision. Reagan and his followers contend, also he in a return to history in a return to the limited governments of the past...
...target for nuclear attack. In Arizona, FEMA'S program offers elaborate details for moving 70,000 residents of Phoenix 78 miles north to Prescott, a town of 20,000. Officials have not figured out how Prescott, which barely survives the annual deluge of tourists at its July 4 Frontier Days festival, will house and feed its unexpected visitors...
...theoretical physics at the University of California at Berkeley. Only 34, he had brought together perhaps the most brilliant team of young physicists in the world-the Oppenheimers, as they were known on campus. They worshiped their mentor, imitated him and worked endless hours with him exploring the new frontier of atomic physics. One of the significant accomplishments of the series is that it conveys to nonscientists the elusive quality of scientific passion. And one of the accomplishments of Sam Waterston, who plays the lead, is that he captures not only Oppenheimer's arrogance but his mesmerizing appeal...