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...praise is not entirely fulsome. Prophetic fiction owes its very existence to Wells. He was, as Joseph Conrad wrote, a "realist of the fantastic." In The World Set Free, he predicted the atom bomb; in The Island of Dr. Moreau, organ transplants; in The War of the Worlds, laser beams. Wells also produced a vast body of nonfiction, capped by The Outline of History, an almost hysterically optimistic attempt to trace mankind's ascent from darkness to a science-aided summit far from the present day. Like most of Wells' work, it was a monumental bestseller...
...esoteric yet immensely important national debate over how to avoid nuclear war has suddenly been focused like a laser beam on one issue: Should the U.S. develop and deploy a space-based system for defending itself against Soviet missiles so as to deter Moscow from ever contemplating such an attack...
RECUPERATING. Michael Jackson, 25, rock-soul superstar; from an 80-minute laser surgical procedure to remove a palm-size patch of scalp tissue scarred from burns received while he was making a TV commercial last January; in Culver City, Calif. Healthy, hair-growing tissue was drawn across the area and stitched in place...
...Soviet response would be a daunting task. However, as many years as we take to develop an ABM system, the Soviets will use to think up a means of circumventing it. Every proposed version of the "star wars" shield has an easily exploited weakness. The Russians could preemptively attack laser satellites. They could confuse tracking systems with thousands of decoy rockets. They could fire submarine-based missiles on low trajectories which couldn't be spotted. Of course, we might be able to solve some of these problems. But the Russians would have a continuous incentive to think up new ones...
...biggest public demonstration ever. An estimated 1 million people swarmed into the plaza that surrounds Rio's Candelária Church, raising clenched fists and chanting "Diretas já!" Yet at times the six-hour rally had the flavor of carnaval, with a hot-air balloon, a laser light show and strains of a samba beat. Shortly after nightfall, politicians and major Brazilian entertainers brought the crowd to fever pitch with passionate speeches and songs. Declared Leonel Brizola, governor of the state of Rio de Janeiro: "The history of Brazil will be divided between what happened before and what...