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...easy way with strangers await the next century. Two of the novel's main characters survive to sample the new age. The boy who first led Fairley into town is an important government minister at the time of World War I. His cousin is a nun and natural scientist whose correspondence with a German bee expert arouses suspicions that she is a foreign agent. With this lovely bit of linkage, Malouf closes a remarkably original book: a lyric history that is also a national contra-epic...
...uncharged atomic particles that would penetrate an object and ''see'' what is inside. When these neutral particle beams hit a massive object like a warhead, gamma rays are emitted. Decoys, which have very little mass, give off virtually no emissions. ''When you get a signal,'' said SDI's Chief Scientist Gerold Yonas, ''it's the warhead. When you don't, it's a decoy.'' At present the paraphernalia needed to produce these beams is so large that it would be impossible to put in orbit as a fighting machine. Once the real warheads have been identified, they could be targeted...
...Administration over the real aim of SDI. While he applauded Reagan's ''vision,'' Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle bluntly stated that a leakproof Astrodome against missiles ''is not a short- term proposition, and it may not even be possible in the long term.'' Gerold Yonas, the chief scientist for SDI, was equally emphatic. ''The idea that we are going to protect all the people somehow with a perfect defense'' is the ''wrong approach.'' Instead, he argued, the goal is to make the Kremlin unsure that it could launch a strike that would knock out America's capacity to retaliate...
...legal showdown has rattled investors - one reason why Istanbul's main stock index has fallen 40% this year - and has exacerbated a sense of polarization that pits democratic principles against secular ones. "This is a very dangerous situation," says Sahin Alpay, a political scientist at Istanbul's Bahcesehir University. "People who feel their way of life is threatened by the conservative Muslim majority want to stick with secularism rather than full democracy - and they aren't calculating the costs...
...clearly is a serious political crisis," says Dave Sinardet, a political scientist at the University of Antwerp. He said Leterme's four months as Prime Minister failed to achieve anything of note, apart from balancing the budget. Meanwhile, the country's economy is slowing and inflation is at its highest in almost 24 years...