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Some scientists remain unconvinced, pointing out that the Alaskan climate may have been milder 65 million years ago. Alternatively, northern dinosaurs may have migrated to more temperate climes or lapsed into a kind of hibernation every winter. Says David Stone, a geophysicist at the University of Alaska: "This is a very limited number of dinosaurs we're talking about. It doesn't have much to say about the adaptability of dinosaurs around the world to sudden darkness...
What Gorbachev says on arms control (and he says a great deal) is markedly milder than the rest of the interview, and it is potentially encouraging. He talks of wanting to meet the U.S. "halfway"; he speaks of the linkage between offense and defense; he reiterates a willingness to cut Soviet offensive forces. Most significant, he is considerably more flexible on the issue of defensive research than his negotiators have been at the talks in Geneva. They have repeatedly demanded a total ban on all such research. Gorbachev, by contrast, says the U.S.S.R. might be willing to permit "fundamental" research...
Often Sartre gets down to the brass tacks of pondering existence: "This evening I miss Argentine, the Sahara, all the parts of the world I don't know, the whole earth--and that's much milder, more resigned and hopeless. It's a 'tender suffering' that resembles happiness. It's like missing a life I might have had when I was 'a thousand Socrates'. But now I'm only one. Or maybe two or three...
...city responsible for housing 5,000 to 15,000 people a night. Because last week's freeze served to focus national attention, Snyder said, "we were rooting for the cold." He is afraid, though, that the homeless may soon be conveniently forgotten, returning to their semivisible status once milder weather returns...
Home Front was first staged last June in London, starring Sternhagen and under the direction of Michael Attenborough. Both repeat their roles in the excellent Broadway production that opened last week. One might expect O'Connor (as a milder Archie Bunker) or Fields (in a part that cries out for an actor with the implosive intensity of a Sean Penn) to commandeer the spotlight. But Home Front is Sternhagen's show, allowing her to nail down, with an increasingly desperate comic urgency, the suburban matriarch. This mom will not be accused of screaming at her children: "I was using...