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...eight years since it was founded, the Strategic Defense Initiative has poured $24 billion into various schemes for knocking down ballistic missiles, many of them dubious. But no Star Wars project seems more clearly -- or appropriately -- destined for the technological trash heap than the one that came to light last week. According to documents made public by the Federation of American Scientists for the express purpose of torpedoing the scheme, the Pentagon has for several years been secretly developing a new kind of booster rocket -- code-named Timberwind -- that would loft giant weapons into space on short notice. Its power...
...media magnate has shown some rather peculiar proclivities as a publisher. His Pergamon Press, soon to be sold to a Dutch firm, produced a World Leaders series that seemed to specialize in official or groveling accounts of dictators. All have since been discredited and relegated to history's scrap heap. Among the titles...
...granted. I set a package of garbage on my doorstep, and when I wake in the morning, it's gone. I've always been obsessive about emptying the trash. My roommates stuff the can full, mash it down with their feet and balance extra waste on top of the heap. Garbage, though, is my sensitive spot, and I'm usually the one who makes sure that the room is devoid of it. It's always gone in the morning...
...moments about his inner stuff. What this may suggest is one more flaw in our system of political assessment. In our dizzy campaigns we analyze a candidate too much from a few one-liners lofted by adversaries or twits. In the debate over terribly complex domestic issues, we frequently heap scorn on even marginally open minds that waver...
...embracing reality. They are postponing big decisions and avoiding the kind of purchases that fuel the economy: autos, houses, appliances. (Suddenly the old car doesn't look so bad.) Yet simultaneously they realize that the unthinkable event of war has happened without the economy collapsing in a heap. The recognition that the U.S. just may muddle through all this has prompted some fits of optimism, impulse buying and a search for diversion...