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Without some protection, though, reporters worry that their sources of information will dry up when they cannot be guaranteed anonymity, and the real loser will be the public interest. "There are two sources in Boston that are definitely no longer available to us," says Gerard O'Neill, editor of the Boston Globe's Pulitzer-prizewinning investigative team. "They've helped us before, but since the Caldwell decision, in spite of all our blandishments, they won't even talk to us on collateral subjects." Globe Assistant Managing Editor Timothy Leland thinks an upcoming investigative series could land...
...cormorant, the hollow-boned creature probably made use of its long supple neck in catching fish or lizards (the remains of a tiny undigested reptile are preserved inside of it). Although part of its forelimbs are missing, they seem to have been equipped with ducklike webbing. Says Paleontologist Gerard Thomel of Nice University: "Our petite dinosaur could walk and no doubt run, too. But I am pretty sure that it also could swim and even dive...
Since the South Vietnamese started their counteroffensive north of Hué last month, four cameramen have been killed and Newsweek Reporter Alexander Shimkin is missing in an ambush and presumed dead. Freelance Photographer Gerard Hebert was cut down by artillery while talking with a U.S. adviser on the outskirts of Quang Tri city. British Freelancer James Gill was killed while covering the South Vietnamese marines attacking the city...
...inviting. As late as the 1950s, many astronomers still thought that conditions on cloud-shrouded Venus might favor life, but by now they know otherwise. Rotating once every 243 days in a direction opposite to that of the other planets, Venus has a surface that University of Arizona Astronomer Gerard Kuiper says might resemble a fresh volcanic field, with boiling sulfur springs and red-hot pools of molten metals. The planet's atmosphere is no less forbidding-mostly carbon dioxide plus thick yellow clouds that may be a poisonous brew of such substances as hydrochloric acid, ammonium chloride...
...Gerard C. Smith, LL.D., chief U.S. negotiator at SALT. His patience and skill at the negotiating table have brought us within reach of a world free from the danger and burden of armaments...