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...this year have taken place in the South, eight of them in Florida. "The Sunbelt has always been the most execution-prone section of the country," says Watt Espy, a capital-punishment expert at the University of Alabama Law Center, who cites the area's traditions of frontier violence and eye-for-an-eye justice. But this regionalism will probably end soon. Indiana expects to put at least one person to death during 1985. So do Nebraska, Missouri and Idaho...
...Lords: Frontier Days (EMI/ America). When a rambunctious band makes a debut album as good as this, it should be all set. The Del-Lords' influences range from Warren Zevon to Alfred Reed, whose vintage How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live kicks the album off in high style and even higher spirits. The music is all rhythmic rush, and the songs-most of them original compositions by Scott Kempner-combine street smarts with some angry political savvy, as in the caustic Mercenary. There are echoes of the Band here, and of Creedence Clearwater Revival...
Robert Reich, Lecturer in public policy at the Kennedy School and author of The Next American Frontier should keep a whole think tank of elves busy this year. His request: "A rosy scenario or upbeat projection." For anything in particular? No, the renowned expert on industrial policy just wants a rosy scenario in general...
...voting majorities of the public often take sides by condemning or condoning the role of technology, legislators and policy makers respond to these extremes. Though perhaps inevitable, this response need not preclude reassessment of the relation between science and public policy. What is obvious is that science expands the frontier of our living conditions. What needs to be recognized is that science is an ethical frontier, rapidly outmoding our ways of making decisions. As a society, we are like a child with a powerful new set of hands--a toy about which we can neither recognize all the dangers involved...
With NASA's encouragement, 3M is one of several companies looking to orbital factories as a place to conduct experiments. This high frontier, as some visionaries call it, could be the arena of the next industrial revolution. The Center for Space Policy in Cambridge, Mass., predicts that by the year 2000 space industries could annually produce $27 billion in Pharmaceuticals to combat cancer and emphysema, $3.1 billion in gallium arsenide semiconductors for electronics, and $11.5 billion worth of incredibly pure glass for optical purposes...