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...will. Evidently, he was deeply troubled by the destruction caused by his invention of dynamite and smokeless gunpowder. Of all the 72 recipients of the prize since 1901, probably none comes closer than Sakharov to the spirit of Nobel's bequest. The father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, Sakharov went on to become an indefatigable fighter for thermonuclear disarmament and democracy in the U.S.S.R. The citation by the Nobel committee in Oslo called him "a firm believer in the brotherhood of man, in genuine coexistence, as the only way to save mankind ... As a nuclear physicist," the citation continued...
...there is another locked section. Sooner or later, such segments will have to catch up with the inexorable-movement of the opposing plates. If they do so in one sudden jolt, the resulting earthquakes, probably in the 7-to 8-pt. Richter range and packing the energy of multimegaton hydrogen bombs, will cause widespread destruction in the surrounding areas...
...former drainage basin. (Viking II's lander is targeted for an area near the planet's north polar hood, where moisture may still exist.) Instead of jet fuel, which would contaminate Mars with hydrocarbons, the landers' descent rockets are powered by purified hydrazine, a nitrogen-hydrogen compound. This, explains Richard S. Young, chief program scientist for the mission, will cause minimal pollution of the Martian environment...
...packaging firm of Coloroll, Ltd., is producing plastic bags that will decompose naturally in five years. The secret: addition of clean, dry starch to plastic polymers. "By putting in the starch," explains Inventor Gerald J.C. Griffin, a teacher of plastics technology at Brunei University, "we are adding carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. The bags will act as a carbon source for soil bacteria, breaking down into humus and carbon dioxide." Griffin's process, which can be used for most plastic products, has a powerful appeal beyond reducing long-lived litter. Because starch costs much less than polymer plastics, the process...
Ever since the Kremlin exiled Alexander Solzhenitsyn to the West 17 months ago, Russia's leading resident political dissenter has been Andrei Sakharov. A world-renowned nuclear physicist who was instrumental in the development of the U.S.S.R.'s hydrogen bomb, Sakharov, during the past decade, has emerged as a leader of the human rights movement within the Soviet Union...