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...most compelling evidence to date of giant black holes was offered by U.S. scientists in the cover article for this month's Nature magazine. Using a string of radio telescopes, spread from the Caribbean to Hawaii, scientists identified an area of turmoil in space 1 1/2 light years wide -- or 40 million times the size of the Sun. TIME science reporter Michael Lemonick reports that "the very strong assumption is that it has got to be a black hole." He explains that black holes were believed to come in two types: many the size of one star, and others believed...
Back during the NAFTA debates, H. Ross Perot darkly warned that if NAFTA passed, we would see a drop in the peso, a "giant sucking sound," which would lure U.S. companies south of the border. Now, in the wake of Mexico's recent peso devaluation, it is not just Perot who is saying, "I told...
Launched last year by right-winger Paul Weyrich's Free Congress Research and Education Foundation, NET currently reaches 10 million homes and, is working on an agreement with cable giant Tele-Communications that would put the network into 12 million more. NET vice chairman Burton Pines attributes the network's growth to Gingrich's electoral success. "It is making Washington the hottest story in maybe a half-century," contends Pines. "And as public fascination with Washington increases, even if it's morbid interest, there will be greater interest in our programming...
Oddly, the peso's devaluation actually accents the emptiness of Perot's dire warnings. The "giant sucking sound" was supposed to come largely from an unequal trade flow. Dollars, chasing cheap Mexican goods, would head south faster than pesos headed north, and jobs would follow the prevailing current...
...balming effect of trade. The unrest of Mexican peasants is undeniably a reminder that free trade's overall benefits entail real costs, but it's equally a reminder that the alternative is worse. In a thoroughly protectionist world, all of Mexico might today look rather like a giant Chiapas...