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Weather prediction is, in the best of circumstances, a crap shoot. Meteorologists, with their satellites and supercomputers, have become pretty good at forecasting the weather five to 10 days in advance. But offering definitive explanations for long-range atmospheric complexities is something no scientist can do. The world's weather...
HEADS WILL ROLL! SO PROMISES BORIS YELTSIN IF officials in his government continue to oppose his reforms. In a nationally televised address 11 days after his strong showing in a national referendum, Yeltsin declared that those who do not share his aims "should simply leave," and called for new parliamentary...
The speaker who most fervently expressed the doomsday prediction of Russian science was Sergey Kara-Murza of the Analytical Center for Problems of Socio-Economy and Science-Technology Department of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Economic Principals, a collection of Warsh's regular Sunday newspaper columns of the same name, highlights yet another mark of fine economic journalism: lasting relevancy. Some of the columns reprinted in the book date back more than a decade. But many are at least as interesting today as they were...
With the end of the cold war, nuclear apocalypticism has gone out of fashion. The vacuum is amply filled by the eco-catastrophists. The late '60s featured Paul Ehrlich's huge best seller, The Population Bomb, an astonishingly wrongheaded prediction of the End brought on by overpopulation -- by 1983. In...