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...nation's most august scientific body, the National Academy of Sciences. Three years ago, Paul Crutzen, a Dutch meteorologist who is now director of the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz, West Germany, suggested that a cataclysmic nuclear war could be followed by a period of icy gloom. Later, Atmospheric Scientist Richard Turco of R&D Associates in Marina del Rey, Calif., Astronomer Carl Sagan of Cornell University and a handful of other researchers elaborated on the idea, concluding that the cold, which they called nuclear winter, could last for months. Some scientists have disagreed with...
...amid all the doom and gloom and the painful reassessment that must inevitably follow such a setback, Liberals can take heart from one basic fact. Though we were found wanting, our philosophy...
...gloom quickly vanished when the black-and-white bird finally arced through the bluest skies that shuttle watchers had ever seen. Hours later the crew got down to work, releasing a Satellite Business Systems Comsat, the first of three communications devices to be deployed. The 1,069-lb. cylinder, to the intense relief of everyone involved, went toward its proper geosynchronous orbit 22,300 miles above earth without a hitch: the payload assist module (PAM) used for the launching was the same kind of device that had shoved two satellites into uselessly low orbits last February. A second satellite...
...punishing America with record inflation, record interest rates, record tax increases ... farm embargoes, gas lines ... weakness abroad and phony excuses about malaise," Reagan declared, "are the last people who should give sermonettes about misery, unfairness and compassion. Don't let them bury the American dream in their graveyard of gloom and envy...
...nation gets sucked up in the high tech craze, it is becoming clear that something is wrong--dangerously wrong. Many experts warn that the accidents experienced thus far by workers in the computer and silicon chip industries are only the tip of the iceberg. The reason for this gloom: the government has not adequately monitored high tech companies, and it shows no signs of starting to do so. And the companies themselves are using more and more toxic chemicals in the production of technology...