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...that would not be vulnerable to space defenses. The satellites could also be vulnerable. "Many potential counters, such as decoys or space mines, have the power to neutralize space-based systems," says Stanford University Physicist and Arms Control Expert Sidney Drell. His colleague Arthur Schawlow, who won the Nobel Prize for his work on developing the laser, agrees: "A laser battle station out in space would be a sitting duck...
POOLMAN Laszlo Kiss was very disappointed when he failed to win a medal at the 1960 Rome Olympics. The 19-year-old Hungarian swimmer came up empty in the 200-m backstroke, but he got an unexpected consolation prize when U.S. gold medalist Mike Troy shared some of his training secrets with him. "I immediately saw the difference between the way Mike prepared and the way we did," says Kiss, now 67. "They trained more and harder, and the dry [land] training was very focused." For Kiss--and eventually for the world of swimming--that insight changed everything...
Allan M. Brandt, the new dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, has been awarded this year’s Bancroft Prize for his comprehensive study of the tobacco industry. Brandt won the prestigious history prize, awarded annually by the trustees of Columbia University, for his book, “The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product that Defined America.” “The premise of the book was that cigarettes represented so many central aspects of our culture,” Brandt, who was traveling and could...
...extraordinary editor” and praised ProPublica’s attempts to “address the struggles newsrooms are having.” Steiger will be leading a panel discussion at the Kennedy School tonight with the winners and seven finalists of the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting entitled “The Present and Future of Investigative Reporting...
...hopes of our new world order and one often advanced by such close friends and admirers of the Dalai Lama as Vaclav Havel and Desmond Tutu. Yet what has made the Dalai Lama's example particularly striking-and what was perhaps partly responsible for his receiving the 1989 Nobel Prize for Peace-is that he has had to live these principles and put them to the test during almost every hour of his 72 years. He came to the throne in Lhasa, after all, when he was only 4 years old, and he was receiving envoys from F.D.R. with intricate...