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...simple-sounding schemes like the zero option and the idea of defending the U.S. with space-based missile killers. Earlier in the year, he commented to a friend that he "sometimes wished all this nuclear stuff would go away." It will not go away in any event, but will loom all the larger...
...Monica Dorten, perched on stools in one corner of a vast blue stage that projects out into the audience like a table, the two actors seem like lambs ready to be sacrificed. But they pull it off. Clad in overstaffed purple tunics, cousins to the Fruit of the Loom grapes, they whisper hilarious jibberish to each other at the approach of a hungry fox, then break out into a scornful jive patois when the fox can't leap far enough to pluck them from their vise. Close and Dotten fill up the stage with their voices, their pantomimes and their...
...bankers point out, less than 10% of their total assets are at risk to foreign borrowers in trouble. But the figures loom large when compared with shareholders' equity, which, coupled with loan-loss reserves, can be thought of as what a bank would have left if it paid off its depositors and creditors. New York's Chemical Bank, for example, has $1.4 billion on loan in Mexico and $370 million to Argentina, a sum amounting to 92% of its shareholders' equity. Chase Manhattan has loans totaling $2.5 billion to the two countries, 77% of stockholders' equity...
...genes and their far-reaching impact always loom large in Konner's analysis. He notes that males are inherently more aggressive than females and explains this as a result of certain set differences in the structure of the hypothalamus, an important part of the brain which controls hormone levels. Males simply have more testesterone and so are simply--genetically--more violent (on average) than females. But to Kronner, this knowledge is promising, since it tells us. "Serious disarmament may ultimately necessitate an increase in the proportion of women in government. We would all be safer if the world's weapons...
Attention in Moscow and Washington is focusing on West Germany, where new Chancellor Helmut Kohl completed a complex parliamentary maneuver last week enabling him to hold elections on March 6. The issue of the NATO missile deployment plan will loom large in the upcoming campaign. Kohl has come out strongly in favor of the new missiles, provided no progress is made in Geneva by the December 1983 deadline. But Hans-Jochen Vogel, who has replaced former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt as the Social Democratic standardbearer, is pressing for greater American flexibility and his party is toying with a compromise that...