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...examining how the U.S. and its defense contractors are equipped to deal with the current assault on their industrial secrets. Not very well, it seems. Security clearances have been handed out to some 4.2 million people in the U.S., an unmanageable amount that cannot be effectively monitored. "The scope of the problem is just unbelievable," said Georgia Senator Sam Nunn. So many people seek clearance these days that the sheer numbers seem to have overwhelmed the agencies responsible. The Defense Investigative Service will conduct about 220,000 investigations this year and also complete 900,000 nonsensitive clearance checks for federal...
...turmoil is political in character or international in scope. At Stanford University last week, some 250 students and faculty demonstrated against the presence of a Playboy magazine representative shopping for willing student bodies for a picture spread called "Girls of the PAC-10." At the University of Texas at Austin, 2,000 students marched to the state capitol building to protest a proposed tuition hike. The Reagan Administration's proposed 20% cut in student loans and grants, which has stimulated protests, also seems to have catalyzed more general student dissent and discontent...
...even when he controls his impulse to wail, Hannah remains a distinctive, disturbing voice. Longtime fans continue to wonder when he will again reach the comic breadth and scope of Geronimo Rex (1972), his dazzling first novel. Certainly not this time. Captain Maximus is almost aggressively fragmentary. But Hannah's brand of disorderly conduct, even in bits and pieces, remains a welcome reminder that art can be just as wild and unpredictable as daily life. --By Paul Gray
...with its cathedral-like jukebox and the commissary and the walls of bed sheets drying in the sun in front of Quonset huts. Yet photographs of all these are retained and displayed prominently in the new buildings, whose functions differ from the originals only in scope. The main business of Los Alamos is what it has been since the town popped up on a plateau just east of the continental divide 42 years ago: the design and development of nuclear weapons. These functions are performed in a surrounding of caves, canyons, mesas, mountains and sky so beautiful that...
...Silk Road musicians and staff will also develop a curriculum “designed to explore the resources of [Harvard and RISD] and to expand the scope of audience participation beyond the mainstream concert tour format,” according to a press release...