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...Guarantee. Many law-enforcement officials argue that the benefits of restrained wiretapping far outweigh the hazards. On the basis of his own experience as a prosecutor in the New York courts, Columbia Law Professor Richard Uviller contends that bugging is one of the most effective weapons against organized crime. A preliminary report on the effects of the wiretap provisions of the new crime-control law tends to bear him out: the 174 taps authorized by four state courts after the Omnibus Crime Bill was passed last year led to no fewer than 263 arrests. "We can't guarantee that...
...that factories may be pulling so many workers off the under-mechanized collective farms that crop shortages will develop. However that problem turns out, Ceauşescu's biggest economic gamble is political. He banks on his faithful adherence to Communist political doctrine-and a police state-to outweigh Moscow's annoyance with his trade ties to the West. Rumania's leaders reckon that they can and must take that risk if they are to build a modern state...
...plainly that I do not advocate moving a moonlet of Mars to the Earth. Discussing such a project is not the same as proposing it. There is no scientific obstacle to doing it, as every physics student knows. But neither is there any point to it, unless the benefits outweigh the costs. And to give proper scientific credits: mind-boggling rearrangements of the solar system have been discussed before; e.g., by Fritz Zwicky at Caltech and Freeman Dyson at Princeton. Regardless, the examination of the Martian moonlets in situ should become a scientific objective of the highest priority; it could...
...postponement of defeat. Man and wife reach an accommodation with age. It is a counting of what is left, rather than what is gone: his clarity of mind and a measure of curiosity, her skill and knowledge, a love based solidly on respect. For the moment, these outweigh the prospect of false teeth and sciatica. Will they continue to? "I do not know. Let us hope so. We have no choice in the matter...
...recent months on present-day economic and social problems, I was deeply disturbed and distressed by what I consider unfortunate, almost irresponsible reporting of the current tensions between the black and Jewish populations. Your failure to point to the positive, significant relationships between these two ethnic groups-which far outweigh the incidents of hostility-not only tends to exacerbate the situation, but reflects unbalanced and subjective reporting...