Word: outerness
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Although the Institute has never taken a position favoring one route over another, it has previously expressed opposition to the two other routes, the only two considered as practical alternates to Brookline-Elm. The first of these, the "railroad route," runs right along the outer edge of the M.I.T. campus and would have destroyed a number of laboratories; the second, is the Portland-Albany route, is several blocks beyond the campus, but within the area where the university may someday expand...
...highway. The designers of this route, a private group of planners called the Cambridge Committee on the Inner Belt, claim that it will displace both fewer jobs and families than the Brookline-Elm route. The Portland-Albany St. path is located East of Central Square just beyond the outer edge of the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
...been remarkably amicable, even though that attitude requires the mutual tolerance of the U.S. and Russia, at present the only two space powers of any consequence. The reasons: neither nation is quite sure what the uses of space are; neither has determined whether it is possible to dominate outer space, or whether success would be worth the immense price. The result is a kind of detente, a protective arch of forbearance beneath which a small group of international lawyers have been scurrying about attempting to establish order. In particular, the legal subcommittee of the United Nations' 28-member Committee...
...member nations involved in drawing up the space treaty have already agreed on nine of the roughly one dozen clauses planned for the treaty. Working in Geneva and New York, they have agreed to ban weapons of mass destruction from outer space, make the moon and all other celestial bodies ''the province of all mankind," conduct all activities in outer space under "international law, including the U.N. charter," and even to report to all other nations and to the U.N. "any phenomena they discover in outer space that could constitute a danger to the life and health...
...keep track of the objects in space-and particularly to detect among them any "dark," or radio-silent, object that might house a nuclear weapon or pose some other threat-the U.S. has developed a highly sophisticated system of surveillance. Each object now in outer space is given its own number and meticulously tracked by radar sensors (which can follow an object as small as a .30-cal. rifle bullet 200 miles into space), computers and special cameras with a range of 50,000 miles. The North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) can tell where every object...