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...most advanced ideas in astrophysics and elementary-particle physics, and joins the independent research of Ostriker and Physicist Edward Witten. The unifying element: the cosmic strings -- bizarre, hypothetical entities that are thinner than an atomic nucleus, as long as the universe is wide, and so dense that a mile-long segment would weigh as much as the earth...
...hearing he convened on the plant's evacuation procedure, Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) led an attack against NRC officials in a packed Amesbury High School auditorium. Amesbury is one of six Massachusetts communities within a 10-mile radius of the idle New Hampshire power plant...
Such a move would eliminate Massachusetts from an evacuation because the state is outside the two-mile zone. Gov. Michael S. Dukakis has held up Seabrook's licensing by refusing to submit evacuation plans...
Elsewhere in the Far East, the build-up of Soviet land forces, which has been going on gradually for 20 years, is quickening. Some 550,000 Soviet troops now line the 4,500-mile Sino-Soviet border. Moreover, some 147 SS-20 missiles are deployed in the Soviet Far East, each carrying three warheads. Peking's suspicion of Moscow is heightened by the growing Soviet naval presence off China's coast, underscored by Moscow's apparent success in persuading North Korea to grant access to the ports of Wonsan and Nampo and overflight rights that permit reconnaissance missions along China...
Canadians put money into the U.S. for many of the same reasons that other foreign investors are drawn to the dynamic $4 trillion American economy: high return on capital, low taxes and skilled labor. What is more, the targets in America are tantalizingly close across the 5,526-mile border. Although Canada is larger than the U.S., its economy is smaller than California's, and its population, at 25 million, is roughly the size of the Golden State's. Furthermore, 24% of the relatively small pool of Canadian assets is already owned by foreign investors. Americans alone...