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...encouraging that Herschbach, having won recognition for research on "the lunatic fringe" of science, turns out to be the most able to explain his research not only in plain English, but in graphically illustrative terms. He drew an analogy last Wednesday--the day the Boston Red Sox won the American League penant--to show how his work makes it possible to look at the motion of individual molecules rather than groups of them. "Suppose baseball were played by millions of pitchers throwing millions of balls at millions of batters at the same time. No one would be interested because...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hail Dudley | 10/20/1986 | See Source »

...Believers add that Brown is just plain bad. And against Yale, you can throw the stats out the window...

Author: By Bob Cunha, | Title: The Tale of the Cynics and the Believers | 10/20/1986 | See Source »

...credit by debasing the competition of which he was a part. Mattingly is in all likelihood a more valuable hitter than Boggs, but to imply that he was cheated out of a batting title when the man who won it had over 600 plate appearances this season is just plain dumb...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sox | 10/11/1986 | See Source »

People always talk about a riot of autumna color. It seems a little more subdued in Vermont Occassional trees splash their color. And one tree stands out on a road through a Vermon town--bright orange next to a plain white house...

Author: By Victoria G.T. Bassetti, | Title: An Autumnal Adventure: Foliage in Vermont | 10/10/1986 | See Source »

Since 1981 the Reagan Administration has made it increasingly plain that the U.S. will not underwrite a profligate organization influenced by anti-American forces -- namely the United Nations. This year the Administration's threats to cut the $210 million U.S. assessment by $67 million have been seconded by congressional Gramm-Rudman budget-cutting efforts. Together the cuts could drop U.S. payments low enough to put the U.N. in fiscal jeopardy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: United Nations: Putting on the Pressure | 10/6/1986 | See Source »

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