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...check in the goldfish-bowl U.S., but impossible to check in uninspected Russia). In November 1951, at the U.N. meeting in Paris, the U.S., France and Britain changed their proposals in the light of the growing importance of the A-bomb as a balance to Russia's land armies. The new proposal called for 1) a step-by-step scaling-down of atomic and conventional armaments together, 2) continuous inspection, and 3) international control of the atom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ATOM: The Road Beyond Elugelab | 4/26/2006 | See Source »

...petition, signed by over 700 Cambridge residents, urged the city to reduce the zoning of Marino’s Restaurant at 2465 Mass. Ave. The restaurant is “spot-zoned” as an A2 business zone, while all the neighboring plots of land are in a B3 business zone...

Author: By Virginia A. Fisher, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: City Council Calls for Pro-Labor University President | 4/25/2006 | See Source »

...indication how long it took Deacon Blues - if that is his real name - to create the game, but he does have one thing right: "The snakes are always released at the midpoint of a trans-oceanic flight. This is a necessary rule, as otherwise the pilot could just land the plane and get rid of the snakes." Genius, pure genius...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Web Guide: Snakes on a Plane | 4/25/2006 | See Source »

...environmental impact statement on the effect of the explosion. "The Department of Defense appears to have learned nothing from Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Chernobyl and the devastating deaths caused to nuclear veterans and downwinders by atmospheric nuclear testing," the suit contends. The June 2 explosion, it added, would contaminate Native American land, "making it unfit for millions of years for an use by the Western Shoshone people or any other human beings." A Defense Department statement, however, declared, "No adverse impact on the environment or health of exercise participants or local residents is anticipated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fallout Before a Bomb Test | 4/25/2006 | See Source »

...When most people, myself included, think of racism against black Americans, we usually think of men - situations like police pulling over black male drivers, Klansmen dragging black men through the streets, the systemic problems that land black men in prison at seven times the rate of white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Southern Discomfort | 4/25/2006 | See Source »

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