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...might SDI merely increase the risk of their use? At the TIME conference on SDI, it was apparent that there was a deep division within the Administration over the real aim of SDI. While he applauded Reagan's ''vision,'' Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle bluntly stated that a leakproof Astrodome against missiles ''is not a short- term proposition, and it may not even be possible in the long term.'' Gerold Yonas, the chief scientist for SDI, was equally emphatic. ''The idea that we are going to protect all the people somehow with a perfect defense'' is the ''wrong approach...
...Boston; Santa Cruz, Calif.; and Portland, Ore. In Annapolis, Md., alderman Sam Shropshire is pushing for what would be among the strictest plastic regulations in the world: banishing plastic bags not only from big retailers but from small ones too, forcing mom-and-pop restaurants, for example, to abandon leakproof doggie bags. "With our proximity to the Chesapeake Bay, there's no other option for the protection of our sea life," says Shropshire...
Digital networking certainly poses a risk to trade secrets, Halbouty says, "but if you're practical and prudent, you can use these tools to your advantage." Pioneer's secrets, he says, are as leakproof as its oil pipes...
Brain tumors have long presented a major challenge to drug delivery because of the especially leakproof blood-vessel walls in the brain, which make it difficult to administer conventional chemotherapy there. Drug-bearing wafers may be one answer. After the brain surgeon removes as much of the tumor as possible, small drug wafers are inserted at the tumor sites. Over time the wafers slowly release a chemical that prevents the recurrence of new tumors. The technique seems to work. A 1997 clinical trial showed that after two years, 31% of glioblastoma patients with implanted wafers were still alive, compared with...
...early, their Republican hosts had an understandable reaction -- lock them in a room until all the beds get made. TIME political editor Priscilla Painton says that while the two 18-box sets of raw scandal data languish in that sealed room in the Ford office building, the report looks leakproof, and "the process by which House members decide what to do with it may be as important as what...