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To justify the way they fight, U.S. Military Officers are fond of quoting Confederate general Nathan Forrest's admonition to "git thar fustest with the mostest." But increasingly, even Army generals agree they have been emphasizing the "mostest" at the expense of the "fustest." The Army has a cold war...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Will Be The Weapons Of The Future? | 5/22/2000 | See Source »

Students agree with the “sibling tip” to varying degrees. Christina Krause, who was accepted in December and is the younger sister of Molly Krause ’02, concurs with the self-selection theory; she notes that although she knows several siblings who were accepted...

Author: By Scott G. Bromley, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: The Harvard Mafia: Siblings Kill to Join the Family in Cambrdige | 4/27/2000 | See Source »

We would like to be able to judge the correctness of a new fundamental theory by making measurements of what happens at scales 10 million billion times smaller than those probed in today's laboratories, but this may always be impossible. With any technology we can now imagine, measurements like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will We Have A Final Theory Of Everything? | 4/10/2000 | See Source »

At the start of the 21st century, alas, all that remains of these happy visions are a few scattered cloud-seeding programs, whose modest successes, while real, have proved less than earthshaking. In fact, yesterday's sunny hopes that we could somehow change the weather for the better have given...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will We Control The Weather? | 4/10/2000 | See Source »

Predictably, the scientists are keeping the red flag raised, despite the absence of concrete evidence to support their fears. While the panel did not come across any specific dangers in their research, the fact remains that despite genetically modified foods' near-saturation of the produce market, no one knows for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are We Breeding Fruits and Vegetables of Doom? | 4/5/2000 | See Source »

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