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...Panamanian warned that "negotiations have not been easy and will not be until the last moment." Both sides have agreed in principle that Panama will take full control of the Zone in the year 2000 and that shipping of all nations will be guaranteed passage through the ca nal. Progress has also been made in de fining the American role in the defense of the canal, but the two sides have not yet found the formula by which the U.S. will continue to administer the Zone for the next 23 years. The treaty, of course, would require approval...
...tribesmen cultivated new forest acreage, less and less land was left for the local herds of elephants. Result: hungry pachyderms have been raiding the peasants' shambas, often devastating the small subsistence plots in the process -and further reducing the food supply. Rwanda's President, General Juvénal Habyalimana, therefore ordered that the elephant herds be "culled." To date, some 106 of Rwanda's estimated 140 elephants have been gunned down by riflemen. Another 26 specimens were shot with tranquilizer darts and taken by helicopter and truck to safety in Rwanda's Kagera National Park...
...programmed energy level of 200 billion electron volts (GeV).* That was not only the most powerful beam ever achieved by an accelerator, but also far surpassed the former record achieved by the Russians in their 76 GeV machine outside Moscow. Just back from congressional appropriations hearings in Washington, NAL'S beleaguered director, Physicist Robert R. Wilson, happily passed out champagne in goblets saved for the occasion and emblazoned with...
...which the protons travel inside the tunnel; the tube must be free of dust arid debris so that the speeding protons do not prematurely lose their energy in accidental collisions. Trouble was, workmen who removed the magnets left behind metal chips and other stray objects that fouled the tube. NAL scientists briefly considered recalling the tiny ferret that had helped cleanse the accelerator's subsidiary tube systems of debris (TIME, Oct. 4). But they eventually settled on a more mundane solution: a magnetic sweeper, forced through the tunnel by air pressure, picked up the stray bits of metal...
Leon Mann, a social psychologist at Harvard, and K. F. Taylor of the University of Melbourne, report in the Jour nal of Personality and Social Psychology that people in lines are possessed of a curious sixth sense that subconsciously spots the "critical point" when the sup ply of tickets will give out. Yet instead of giving up and going home, late comers succumb to an ersatz optimism and delude themselves into thinking that the line is shorter than it really...