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ATWOOD'S WRITING was much vaunted 15 years ago when her novel Surfacing was hailed as one of the best books of the '70s. One of the deficiencies of The Handmaid's Tale--and maybe the Atwood genre in general--is that its prediction of a society where a woman...
Best prediction: Barakett's statement that the Yale game at Ingalls Rink should be the toughest ECAC game of the season.
Taking the prediction to heart, Kaku has spentthe last year and a half helping to circulate ananti-Star Wars petition among scientists.Initiated in May of '85 by John Kogut, a physicsprofessor at the University of Illinois, thedocument comes, Kogut says, "in direct response tothe government's attempt to militarize science...
After the first cases appeared in the U.S. nearly a decade ago, the public generally assumed that victims of AIDS would be confined to certain well- defined "risk groups," notably homosexuals and intravenous drug users. But there is an ever growing body of medical evidence that almost everyone is vulnerable...
ACCORDING TO a recent Time article, the '80s may well go down in literary history as the decade of the mystery novel. P.D. James, the reigning queen of fictional murder and intrigue, has recently published A Taste for Death, an impeccably British sleuth story that will help that prediction come...