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...that reason, Earth's defenders, if they have the luxury of time, would prefer to send a robot craft to rendezvous with a threatening asteroid and determine its composition and mechanical strength before dispatching a nuke to the scene. Physicist Edward Teller suggests that this is what we should do, just for practice, when XF11 passes far from Earth two years from now. Other defensive plans being bandied about at the Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore national labs involve more exotic devices, such as neutron bombs or netlike arrays of interconnected tungsten balls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Asteroids: Whew! | 3/23/1998 | See Source »

...notch physicist and a barbecue gourmand. She's a Medical School lab manager and an enthusiastic equestrian...

Author: By Scott A. Resnick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Physicist Georgi, Wife Named New Leverett House Masters | 3/16/1998 | See Source »

...third casual link came from the non-communist forces that gained ascendancy during the Soviet democratization period of 1988-89, who agreed with the reform communists in their admiration for the Prague Spring and its principles. The dissident Nobel Prize-winning physicist Andrei Sakharov was the leader of this democratic movement. He wrote in his memoirs that the crushing of the Prague Spring was one of the most tragic events of Russia's history, "but fire burned beneath the ashes," he concluded...

Author: By Fredo Arias-king, | Title: Czech-Mate | 2/27/1998 | See Source »

...gratifying to note that it is an eccentric physicist, Richard Seed, who is planning to start a clinic in Chicago to clone human beings [SCIENCE, Jan. 19]. The fact that it doesn't appear he will succeed brings some solace. It is very scary when academics start discussing the cloning of headless human beings. Scientists should stop playing God. KENNETH MUSANA Montreal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 16, 1998 | 2/16/1998 | See Source »

These futuristic scenarios are not now part of the debate over human cloning, but they should be. Spurred by the fear that maverick physicist Richard Seed, or someone like him, will open a cloning clinic, lawmakers are rushing to enact broad restrictions against human cloning. To date, 19 European nations have signed an anticloning treaty. The Clinton Administration backs a proposal that would impose a five-year moratorium. House majority leader Dick Armey has thrown his weight behind a bill that would ban human cloning permanently, and at least 18 states are contemplating legislative action of their own. "This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Case For Cloning | 2/9/1998 | See Source »

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