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...summary, divestment can have a constructive effect on South Africa only if we can answer all four of the preceding questions affirmatively. In reality, it is far from clear that one can give a positive answer to any of these questions. The likelihood that all four can be answered affirmatively is vanishingly small. Hence, I find no basis for concluding that universities will help defeat apartheid in South Africa by agreeing to divest. As a matter of principle, therefore, I see no reason for departing from the basic norms that define the role of the University in any society. Even...
...time. At the Jones' clinic, which has one of the world's highest success rates, there is a 20% chance of pregnancy if one embryo is inserted, a 28% chance if two are used and a 38% chance with three. However, transferring more than one embryo also increases the likelihood of multiple births...
Despite these expensive and humiliating defeats, there is little likelihood that the Government will change its investigative ways. Without what one lawman calls "creeps as witnesses," it would be impossible to solve most drug, organized-crime and official-corruption cases. Dan Webb, U.S. attorney in Chicago, for instance, seldom tries a major criminal case in which some witnesses do not "carry baggage"-have criminal records. Webb's prosecutors may have set a record for the use of bad-guy witnesses, when in 1982 they paraded some 50 criminals into court to testify against ten police officers charged with taking...
...month after she ordered the bloody assault in Punjab against Sikh fanatics at the Golden Temple of Amritsar, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had once again pounded her fist in the name of buttressing India's system of centralized government. Mercifully, there seemed to be little immediate likelihood in Srinagar that the action would lead to the type of bloody confrontation that claimed more than 600 lives in Amritsar. The troops had been sent to Jammu and Kashmir to keep the peace as the state government was being rocked by New Delhi's ouster of the freely elected Chief...
...scrubbed mission may be the biggest snafu in NASA'S glitch-plagued shuttle program. Never before has a countdown been interrupted after a main engine was ignited. Once engines are sparked and combustible materials released, the likelihood of a launch-pad tragedy escalates dramatically. As it turns out, experts who studied high-speed film of Discovery's firing taken right before shutdown believe that something was burning that should not have been. Normally, the liquid hydrogen and liquid oxgygen that combine in the engine nozzles to fuel the shuttle at takeoff produce billows of clean white steam...