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Astronomy no longer evokes visions of plodding intellectuals peering through long telescope tubes. Nor does the cosmos any longer refer to that seemingly inactive, immutable regime captured while occasionally gazing at the nighttime...
...flattened the island of Eniwetok in the Pacific and renendered it an uninhabitable, flat desert), Cold-War-oriented advocates of the hydrogen bomb sought to erase the distinction between large conventional weapons and small nuclear ones, so-called tactical nuclear weapons, by use of the cute term "nukes" to refer to these allegedly minor nuclear weapons. Today to see the sign "no nukes" on the bumper stickers of Volkswagens and other cars driven by the educated elite at Harvard and elsewhere, brings back memories of that era of seeking to maintain the vital distinction between merely dreadful conventional weapons (which...
Botha has a particularly difficult tune of it, since he must somehow obscure the ugly face of racist discrimination. But to translate apartheid as "good neighborliness" is the height of cynicism. One might as well refer to murder as "giving someone a well-deserved rest...
Although most semior tutors and senior advisers know about the procedure, many proctors have only a vague notion of the options open to students. In UHS, Nadia B. Gould, who counsels students on sex-related problems, says she is unaware of any officially-approved procedure, although she would probably refer them to Walzer. Walzer says although she reviewed the procedure with proctors in 1978, she may need to go over the process more frequently to make sure proctors know where to send students for advice...
...average 43% cut for oil and 33% for gas from the energy companies' local production revenues, and its royalties surged from $1.3 billion in 1974 to $4 billion this year. Coveting more of this wealth for themselves, many Canadians outside the province call Alberta "OPEC North" and refer to its leaders as "blue-eyed sheiks." After traveling throughout the nouveau riche province, TIME Correspondent Ed Ogle reports...