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NIGHT THOUGHTS OF A CLASSICAL PHYSICIST by Russell McCormmach Harvard University; 219pages...
...earth's surface. The station also acts as a laboratory for the study of human behavior in isolation. Last week the season's final flight took off from the pole. Left behind until November, when flights resume, were 17 people, including one visiting Soviet scientist, an atmospheric physicist. During the long polar night, radio will be their only contact with the outside world...
Entrepreneurs like Kloss often move restlessly from one field to another, starting new companies like an industrial Johnny Appleseed. S. Allan Kline, 61, is a physicist by training, so it is not surprising that he helped found Xicor, a company that makes memory chips for computers. Less expected was his development of a nutritional snack. New Generation Foods, which he founded in 1977, last year sold $3.6 million worth of Spicer's WheaTwists, a low-calorie, high-protein snack chip. Quips Kline: "I'm in the chips business: one edible, one inedible...
...Arabian Nights; features on Tethys, for those from Homer's Odyssey. Yet even so seemingly innocuous a task can bog down in politics. The Soviets like to name newly discovered asteroids after revolutionary heroes. Last summer U.S. and West European astronomers countered by naming one after dissident Soviet Physicist Andrei Sakharov...
...Sakharov demonstrations erupted in European capitals, and world statesmen, including Pope John Paul II, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and President Reagan, expressed their concern. The Soviets have always held back from taking extreme measures against Sakharov because of his international celebrity as the much decorated nuclear physicist who helped develop the Soviet hydrogen bomb. He later went on to gain greater fame as the champion of human rights in the U.S.S.R. and the winner of the 1975 Nobel Peace Prize, though he has been roundly vilified in the Soviet press. The Soviets' fear of incurring worldwide opprobrium...