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...most chilling. Last week the hospital requested that Hinckley be allowed visits unsupervised by hospital staff, one day a week, on a Saturday or Sunday, to be with his parents. While Secret Service agents will tail him, the conditions are minimal: he must not stray outside a 50-mile radius from the hospital. Someone walking his dog in Virginia may run into Hinckley. The U.S. Attorney's office is challenging this and has asked for a hearing next month. But if the past is a lesson, we should all take heed. Is Hinckley less insane now? Is he no longer...
...their relationship was a reprieve, a warm place in the heart of this darkness. And even when Tanzanian troops surrounded the camp, launched tear gas into the compound and ordered the refugees onto the roads back to Rwanda, Joseph and Nereciana, holding hands as two links in a 40-mile chain of humanity, could go with hope, believing--despite rumors that Tutsi were waiting at the other end of the Rusumo bridge over the Kageva River to castrate returning Hutu males--that God would watch over them and return them to safety. There were some positive signs: the Red Cross...
...where the so-called initiation points come in. "All earthquakes start in small areas," says William Ellsworth, who has studied quakes in Southern California as a member of the USCG Earthquake Hazards Team. These initiation points can be as small as a foot or as large as a mile or two across. Instead of lubricating 350 miles, it might be possible to concentrate on just eight or 10 miles--costly, but not prohibitive...
...WILL THE UNIVERSE END? WILL WE DISCOVER ANOTHER UNIVERSE? WILL THE MIND FIGURE OUT HOW THE BRAIN WORKS? WILL WE HAVE A FINAL THEORY OF EVERYTHING? WILL WE FIGURE OUT HOW LIFE BEGAN? WILL WE CLONE A DINOSAUR? WILL WE KEEP EVOLVING? WILL ANYONE EVER RUN A 3-MINUTE MILE? WILL WE CONTROL THE WEATHER? CAN WE SAVE CALIFORNIA? WILL WE EVER TRAVEL AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT? ...REACH ABSOLUTE ZERO? ...GET RID OF COCKROACHES? WILL THERE BE ANYTHING LEFT TO DISCOVER...
...scoot around the solar system and return within a few years, you need a spacecraft that will cruise at 100 miles a second. At that speed you will get to Mars in 10 days, to Pluto in 16 months. We can imagine a spacecraft carrying a big area of thin film to collect solar energy, with an ion-jet engine to produce thrust powerful enough to boost a spacecraft to a speed of 100 miles a second. It is also possible to build a nuclear-powered jet to do the same job, if the political objections to nuclear spacecraft...