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Until last year, it was illegal to require anyone in a New York City high rise to evacuate in a drill. That is absurd, of course. Under regulations being debated, building managers will probably have to run full or partial evacuation drills every two years so most people in those buildings will have entered their stairwells at least once. Some people may even descend to the bottom, and they will never forget how long it takes. The disabled will figure out how much assistance they need. The obese will see that they slow down the whole evacuation as they struggle...
...native of Taiwan, was named one of the 25 annual recipients of the no-strings-attached $500,000 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship—popularly known as the “genius grant”—and has since made important contributions to the study of quantum mechanics, partial differential equations, and mathematical physics...
...extremely strong analytical skill in partial differential equations and mathematical physics,” said Shing-Tung Yau, Graustein professor of mathematics. “We need to strengthen this area, and he fit in very well...
...leader on the subject of the peace process. Recalling the late Anwar Sadat's historic visit to Israel in 1977, Peres pledged to go to Jordan "or any location" to hold direct peace negotiations with King Hussein before the end of 1985. For the first time, Peres also gave partial support to Hussein's long-standing insistence on an international peace conference as a forum for solving the Middle East's problems. The Israeli Labor Party leader's offer was speedily denounced back home by hard-line members of the other major partner in his national unity government, the Likud...
...situation in South Africa has grown more inflamed, the protest in Washington has kept pace. In response to Pretoria's imposition of a partial state of emergency, 1,500 demonstrators gathered outside the South African embassy last week; 43 were taken into custody, including John Jacob, the president of the National Urban League, and 35 of that organization's officials. Noting that he had never been arrested in a demonstration before, Jacob said, "It is an experience to be considered only when the principle is of vital importance...