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...rate and to attack the burgeoning black market, Gorbachev's new embrace of the military and KGB has particularly alarmed ^ radical reformers. "Gorbachev is willing to use any source he can find right now to help him regain the power he has lost," says Andranik Migranyan, a Moscow political scientist. "But if he allows the right to consolidate, he will only create more serious obstacles in the path leading to democracy and a market economy...
...only when the fighting was well under way. This time, Americans are watching the preparations in the sand on television every night: an instant, electronic diary. "We are being told how many casualties we can expect on the first day, on the second day," says Alan Chartock, a political scientist at the New Paltz campus of the State University of New York. "The enemy is talking to us, giving us nightly forecasts of doom...
...Russian proverb, it should be: When skating on thin ice, move quickly. Like Gail Sheehy, who has learned some fast footwork and slick maneuvers during her career as a New Journalist and pop psychologist. Her biography of the Soviet leader marks Sheehy's debut as a pop political scientist...
More than a dozen books explore aspects of the Gaia hypothesis. Lovelock's most recent thinking is available in The Ages of Gaia (Bantam Books; $10.95). The scientist has an attractively wry style, but his discussions of biochemistry and other abstruse fields can run ahead of general readers, who might prefer to turn to one of the more popular books about the theory. Among the most balanced and accessible is Lawrence Joseph's Gaia, the Growth of an Idea (St. Martin's Press; $19.95). Joseph goes to great lengths to characterize the importance of Gaia, but where necessary he holds...
Andrew W. Hamilton, staff scientist at the non-profit Conservation Law Foundation, said his group, which defends the environment through legal channels, opposed the fare increase because of its potentially negative repercussions on air quality and traffic. The Conservation Law Foundation had estimated that 75,000 passengers would stop riding the T if the fare was increased...