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...frowns, soothing words to cross ones. Insults are delivered and returned. Crockery goes smashing. Soup (with flies) pours in torrents from under doors. The police arrive. The civic disturbance turns, absurdly, into global war, and then into an atomic Armageddon. The final scene, projected on television, is of the planet exploding-because of a fly in the soup. Ionesco's black joke scarcely exaggerates the monstrous disproportion, the near pathology, of latter-day anger. If every period has its characteristic emotion, anger must surely be ours-the mask of cracked civility, the furious heart beneath. Yale President Kingman Brewster...
...nation's burgeoning concern with its environment, professional ecologists tend to get all the attention with sweeping and frequently apocalyptic visions of a polluted planet. Now other voices are emerging. Some recent, unusual and even eccentric examples of environmental activism...
...that men have grown bored with moon shots. Somehow, the idea of Richard Nixon landing in Peking, 6,922 miles away from home, seems at the moment to stir more excitement than what is for some the repetitive prospect of three more astronauts slinging 239,000 miles off the planet. The sense of déjá vu is especially unjustified for Apollo 15, because the mission is the most perilous to date, with greater than usual concern for the safety of the explorers (see SCIENCE...
Ever since they discovered it three centuries ago, astronomers have been baffled by Jupiter's Great Red Spot. The larger-than-earth-sized blemish, which drifts mysteriously across the face of the solar system's biggest planet, sometimes covers an area 8,000 miles wide and 30,000 miles long. Occasionally it grows noticeably brighter; at other times it almost vanishes. Other than to speculate that the spot is caused by an unusual deviation in the planet's magnetic field or a physical irregularity somewhere below its atmosphere, scientists have long been at a loss to explain...
...could detect some indirect evidence of its existence. Because the huge mass would act as a barrier against the hot, rising currents characteristic of the Jovian atmosphere, the area above the solidified hydrogen would be relatively calm and free of the white ammonia clouds that cover much of the planet. As a result, the observer would be able to see much farther into the atmosphere and perceive the deep red at its lower depths...