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Berry admits that his first trekkies would not know where they might emerge or if they would ever get back. One possibility: they could construct a parallel black hole at their destination to bring them home. He also seems unconcerned about another hazard: his creation might explode in a supernova, spraying its builders with deadly radiation. Still, the author writes with such refreshing faith in science's ability to conquer all obstacles of time and space that even skeptics may be willing to suspend disbelief and join him in this dazzling armchair journey across the cosmos. Here, at least...
...significant attempts to discourage marijuana use, cannabis is more than a fad and may well prove to be an enduring cultural pattern in the U.S." Other than suggesting that smoking pot might cause lung damage. NIDA ducks the issue of whether the drug poses a serious, long-term health hazard, explaining that the question requires further study. But the agency does note that marijuana upsets psychomotor coordination, as does alcohol. Indeed, as marijuana use increases, so presumably will the number of marijuana-related highway accidents. A study of 300 fatal car crashes in the Boston area has already shown that...
...workfare scheme represents a novel attempt to zero in on the most exasperating welfare problem of all: the consistent failure of men, physically fit and in need of work to support families, to find jobs, either through state agencies or the federal work incentive program. Workfare confronts one legal hazard that could destroy it: Congress has enacted a law that bars the use of federal welfare funds as salaries, and the U.S. Government matches the state's $11 million contribution for jobless fathers of needy families. Dukakis' aides have discovered, however, that authorities in Utah have been getting...
South Korea sees itself as militarily strong, but facing an extreme hazard. Every Korean leader seems to have a map in his mind and a geographic lecture on his lips: the country is the tip of a small peninsula at the edge of the Asian continent. It faces not only the intransigent opposition of North Korea on its only border, but beyond that the land mass of both China and Soviet Russia. At its back and sides, South Koreans repeatedly point out, there is only...
Anti-Tire Forces. Not everyone has admired Heidelberger's Mount Baldy. The Andover town board, charging that the tires had become a breeding ground for rats and mosquitoes, repeatedly tried to force him to get rid of them. The state, worried about a fire hazard, once demanded that he bury his tires individually, 2 ft. deep and 4 ft. apart. "There's not enough land in the state to bury all my tires," snorted Heidelberger...