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Airless Orb. Undaunted, a University of Miami scientist with credentials in the field of cosmogony-has resurrected one of the old theories and given it a new twist that he feels will enable it to pass the mathematical and dynamical tests its predecessors failed. Physicist S. (for Siegfried) Fred Singer suggests that the moon first evolved as a minor planet, independent of the earth and following its own orbit around the sun. About four billion years ago, he believes, its path carried it on a near-collision course with the earth, which at that time was an atmosphereless orb revolving...
False Economy. Los Angeles Regent Edward Carter argued against using the regents' fund "just to balance the state budget one year," pointed out that it had financed such pioneering projects as Physicist Ernest Lawrence's cyclotron studies. Financier Norton Simon, calling on his own business experience, warned against any budgeting that reduces the quality of the product. "I wouldn't tear down the very root of what's been built," he declared. "This is the falsest kind of economy...
...Managerial skills are lacking. "Here we have brilliant individuals and almost never brilliant organizations," says Italian Physicist Massimo Bernardini. U.S.-style teamwork between research, production and financial men remains the exception-and Europeans still have a lot to learn about advertising and marketing too. Anthony Wedgwood Benn, Britain's Minister of Technology, lists "seven new deadly sins" afflicting the British economy, among them "industrial amateurism" and "status hunting." Habitually, corporations pick top managers and directors not for ambition, skill or diligence but for their social qualifications. This sin of amateurism is certainly not confined to Britain...
Despite these practical applications, many scientists share Physicist Everhart's concern about the space mirrors. Biologists fear that decreasing the hours of darkness could disturb the delicate circadian rhythms that control many life processes. Other scientists envision a mirror swinging out of control, reflecting sunlight indiscriminately over the night face of the earth. Even more alarming to Everhart is the potential proliferation of the mirrors. "Farmers would demand them to plow their fields at night," he says, "and resort owners would want them to light their lakes and pools." Singlehanded, Everhart has mounted an intensive campaign to rally...
...burial vaults have long since been discovered and looted, but some archaeologists suspect that others still lie undisturbed behind tons of lime stone and granite blocks. Egypt's pyramids may soon yield their remaining secrets. In a speech before the American Physical Society last week, University of California Physicist Luis Alvarez reported that his ingeniously conceived project to peer into the pyramids with cosmic rays is about to get under...