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...March 5, 8 p.m. EST). The development of the A-bomb, retold as a three-hour TV movie. Brian Dennehy stars as the general who headed the Manhattan Project; Michael Tucker (L.A. Law) plays a top scientist; and David Ogden Stiers handles the F.D.R. impression...
...have to be a political scientist to understand why that's so," Keker said. "Congress enacts the law, the president approves it and enforces it. If they start lying to each other our system of government is not going to work...
...research centers for short visits and lecture tours. In 1988, 35 adventurers paid $35,000 each to set foot on the South Pole, and this year another group is skiing 600 miles to the bottom of the world. "Tourism really needs to be regulated," says Mary Voyteck, a scientist with the Environmental Defense Fund...
...then natural variability is very large. But % it's the global average that is important." While other climate experts are slower to make concrete predictions, Hansen's studies of global temperatures suggest that the warming trend has already begun and will soon become widely apparent. Warns the NASA scientist: "Our model predicts that by the middle of the 1990s, the greenhouse effect should be pretty clear not only to scientists, but also to the man in the street...
Their advanced age, Republicanism and durability create some parallels between Eisenhower and Reagan. But as a politician, the general was not the actor's equal. Political scientist Richard Neustadt points out that "Ike came into office with the status of a genuine national hero and merely had to preserve that aura. Reagan came in only with what he had on his back and had to create his stature." One indispensable item Reagan carried was a quiver of messages and images, simple but sharp, honed over his many years as a conservative advocate. His great skill was in making...