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The specific provisions envisioned by advocates of flexibility vary significantly, but one possible future sequence of tradeoffs might go like this: if the Soviets agreed to resume START, the negotiations aimed at reducing strategic nuclear weapons, the U.S. might consider limitations on antisatellite (ASAT) weapons, particularly those aimed at high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gromyko Comes Calling | 10/1/1984 | See Source »

All that began to change in 1980 when the National Radio Astronomy Observatory inaugurated the Very Large Array (VLA), an extraordinary $78.3 million string of 27 radio telescopes set out like giant Dixie cups across 21 miles of the desert of New Mexico. The VLA is one of a kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Case of the Cosmic Bends | 8/6/1984 | See Source »

The murals and other writings in the crypt are expected to provide scholars with further insight into the political and social structure of a society that used mathematics, charted the heavens, invented a calendar and constructed elaborate irrigation canals. The wall decorations and inscriptions indicate that the occupant was a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Buried Treasure in the Jungle | 6/4/1984 | See Source »

Program to keep track of the talents and special interests of every member in the church's congregation. Says Birr: "If I need a soccer-league coach, all I have to do is ask the computer to give me a list of all male members between the ages of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Wizard Inside The Machine | 4/16/1984 | See Source »

As John Paul once noted, the case created in the minds of many religious people doubts about the possibility of "fruitful harmony between science and faith, between church and the world." But arguing that such harmony can in fact exist, the Pope says that the church has now paid a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Rehabilitating Galileo's Image | 3/12/1984 | See Source »

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