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Science should not be expected to work miracles, as overzealous researchers sometimes seem to promise. It can't build a leakproof nuclear umbrella, stop the evolution of new plagues or prop up an economy in the face of fiscal irresponsibility. But the consensus in Washington is that the full potential of American science is not being tapped. The job ahead for Clinton, the new Congress and scientific leaders is to determine how best to use limited research dollars to reveal new knowledge -- and put that knowledge to work solving society's problems...
...Stasi has been disbanded, although a few dozen former officials remain on the payroll to help a 100-member citizens' oversight committee supervise storage of dossiers on an estimated 5 million individuals. The supervision has not been leakproof: two prominent politicians were ruined by disclosures that they served as Stasi informants, and ex-agents are suspected of providing the damaging leaks. There are also rumors that a ring of former Stasi agents is using the files to blackmail ex-informers...
...sees at a glance, the computer must be taught, painstakingly, one step at a time. First it must comprehend the concept of an object, a physical thing distinguished from the space around it by edges and surfaces. Then it must grasp the essential attributes of cupness: the handle, the leakproof central cavity, the stable base. Finally, it must deal with the exceptions, like the foam-plastic cup whose heat-insulating properties are so good that it does not need a handle...
...Senate Select Committee probing Iranscam is determined to avoid such unseemliness. To shield its investigation from political gossip as well as foreign intelligence services, the committee will move into a new $350,000 suite in the Hart Office Building that is designed to be leakproof. Staff members will talk on bug-proof telephones, type on hacker-proof word processors and sign out research material from a "secure documents room." The offices will be protected by code-locked doors staffed around the clock by armed guards. Exterior walls will be implanted with electronic sensors to detect intruders...
...House and operating with a budget of only $4 million, could run so dangerously amuck. The answer seems to be that it offered everything Reagan wanted as an instrument of policy. The NSC is protected by Executive privilege, immune to congressional oversight, secretive and small enough to be virtually leakproof. Though the NSC has enjoyed high influence in previous Administrations, the agency has rarely attained the degree of autonomy that it has under Ronald Reagan. But critics charge that the NSC has been playing outside its territory. "The National Security Council is not set up to handle operations and implement...