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Quinta seems, from terrestrial observations, a promising target, and getting there is half of Lem's fun. The Eurydice is constructed in orbit around a moon of Saturn; its thermonuclear flowstream engines use hydrogen intake as fuel and can achieve a velocity of 99% the speed of light. While the...
In Third World countries, government officials were loath to criticize Citicorp's new hard-nosed policy. Brazil's Finance Minister, Luiz Carlos Bresser Pereira, said he saw the bank's move as a prudent shoring up of its foundations. Said a top Argentine official: "It's the first sign that...
The most fateful exercise of judicial discretion is the one that starts with the words "I sentence you . . ." Whether to slap the wrist or slam the cell door is a complex and partly subjective decision in which the particulars of the crime, the history of the culprit and the disposition...
At the heart of the debate is the ongoing attempt by the superpowers to manipulate each other's nightmares of war in order to maneuver for advantage in times of peace. The West has long wanted the Kremlin to fear that a Soviet attack on Europe, even with conventional weapons...
Liedtke and Kinnear talked twice by phone on Friday. Kinnear sent over one last proposal, and Liedtke rejected it. That evening Kinnear and DeCrane gave up and flew back to New York. Texaco's lawyers then filed an affidavit with the Texas appeals court in which the company swore that...