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None of Einstein's ideas have so fascinated the public and provoked such controversy among physicists as the so-called "clock paradox." One of the major predictions of the great physicist's Special Theory of Relativity, the paradox is based on the assumption that time passes more slowly for an object in motion than one at rest. Thus, if Einstein was correct, an astronaut traveling at extremely high speeds-say to a distant star and back-would age less during his trip than a twin brother who had remained on earth. Depending on the length of his mission...
Aging Slowly. Man has not yet advanced far enough technologically to stage such a test of relativity. But Physicist Joseph C. Hafele of Washington University in St. Louis and Astronomer Richard Keating of the U.S. Naval Observatory have apparently verified the clock paradox in a less dramatic fashion. Last October, carrying four extremely precise atomic clocks, they set off on two successive round-the-world plane trips to check the validity of Einstein's prediction (TIME, Oct. 18). Their scheme was elegantly simple. On the eastbound flight, their plane was traveling in the direction of the earth...
...tours de force of the past few years. But he has done more. With few illusions of ever returning to the great days of Saturday matinee catharsis, he illustrates the salutary nature of terror-its ability to exorcise fears of evil and death. He also toys gracefully with the paradox that fiction is capable of more truth than journalism. The truth about Brock Brower, an experienced freelance journalist, is that he must now be reckoned with as an extraordinarily capable novelist...
Even though the number of educated women is at an alltime high, the representation of women in the traditionally male professions is still extremely low. One likely reason for this paradox, says Harvard Psychologist Matina Horner, is that U.S. women actively fear success...
...this paradox? Obstetrics and gynecology are considered a surgical specialty, and surgery is the most rigidly disciplined major branch of medicine. It requires more apprenticeship training than most other branches, and many senior man doctors do not want to "waste" the education on a woman who might later practice only part time for family reasons. Cardiovascular Surgeon Nina Braunwald of the University of California at San Diego, one of the few who made it, sees another reason: "Surgery is a closed field, and the male ego would like to keep it so." Because department heads in the surgical specialties would...