Word: linke
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...scientists are suddenly optimistic about finding this missing link in Einstein's theory. A new facility called the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), planned for completion in 1995, could provide the first direct evidence that gravity waves exist. The $192 million project recently got a thumbs-up from President George Bush, who asked Congress for $47 million in start-up funding as part of his proposed 1991 budget. The search for a suitable site has already begun...
Detractors also contend that there is no clear link between self-esteem and academic performance and that a variety of people -- not just black men -- can effectively teach African-American boys. "It's helpful to have role models from one's own group," says child psychiatrist James Comer, director of the Child Study Center at Yale. "But there's probably no need to have role models exclusively from that group...
...REACH-OUT ALBANIA PLAN. Paranoid, reclusive Albania is beginning to reach out and touch someone. The nation opened telephone links with 54 Western countries earlier this year, and this month a direct U.S.-Albania link is being inaugurated by AT&T. This week the National Assembly begins meeting to consider a number of -- for Albania -- revolutionary proposals. Among them: reinstituting the Ministry of Justice, which was abolished in the '60s on the pretext that it was no longer needed, and the right of the accused to have a defense lawyer...
...still, every act or failure to act brings criticism. John Root, a young New York City lawyer whose wife perished on Pan Am Flight 103, a bombing with a suspected link to Tehran, was incensed to hear Bush's "thanks" to Iran and Syria for their help in freeing Polhill and Reed. Thanks for a tiny lapse from barbarism? "We can't go by the Marquis of Queensberry rules," says Root, although he acknowledges sympathy for Bush and his impossible equation...
...circle of my gunsight. I squeezed the trigger, and felt the stutter of the machine guns and watched the plane belch smoke. The world was in color again; the G-forces had receded; my stomach was back where it belonged. Victory was mine. The radio link to the other plane came alive. "Yee-haw!" taunted the loser of this aerial gunfight, a trucking-company official from Tucson. "Now it's my turn...