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It's not that there's no racial and sexist insensitivity at Harvard. The University's reluctance to increase minority and women in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences shows great callousness. And the University's divestment policy is further evidence of an administration that seems not to care. Perhaps...
Most policymakers would rather wait until the greenhouse effect and other environmental threats have irrefutably arrived before taking remedial action. Not Senator Albert Gore. "When you look at the overall pattern, the image is so clear that further delay is utterly irresponsible," he says. "We know enough right now to...
The proposed Techno-Superliner, 2 1/2 times as fast as any current container ship, would be propelled by water jets and powered by gas-turbine engines. Advocates of the liner (estimated cost: $79 million) hope it will revive Japan's flagging shipyards. Further in the future: a Techno-Superliner that...
Near the top of the list has been the size of Nicaragua's armed forces. The U.S. contends that the Sandinistas' 70,000-member standing army is much bigger than necessary for legitimate defense and that it looms as a threat to other countries in the region. Ortega claimed he...
Ortega insisted that the ranks of Cuban military advisers in Nicaragua, estimated by Washington to number some 8,000, have been thinned. He said the number of Cubans has fallen from "hundreds, not thousands" to "dozens." Further reductions, he suggested, would be tied to the departure of several hundred U.S...