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Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger had ketchup thrown at him when he spoke several years ago. Two years ago, in a move admittedly designed to provoke liberals more than enhance campus debate, the Conservative Club brought a South African official to Cambridge. The strategy worked, as a raucous mob of...
The leading contenders were Rubbia and his colleagues, who had built a $20 million particle detector called UA1 to be used with the SPS accelerator, and a second team of physicists at CERN using a detector known as UA2. Rubbia drove the UA1 team unmercifully, Taubes writes, then unofficially spread...
Two of last week's collisions involved military planes. In clear skies 20 miles east of Kansas City, a civilian Piper Navajo flying under visual flight rules collided with an Army twin-engine transport, killing all five people involved. In the bright central Texas sky near Brownwood, two unarmed Air...
Although the airlines must pay for installing TCAS II, they support Engen's decision to proceed. Many pilots, however, would prefer to wait for more advanced technology. TCAS II can tell a plane to go up or down to get out of danger, but not whether to swerve left or...
Lawyer Daniel Bergstein, a senior partner in the New York firm of Finley Kumble Wagner, which has many Wall Street clients, notes that raiders and arbitragers can form what he calls an "unholy alliance." In a typical maneuver, they might have a mutual commitment to buy up stock in a...