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Paralyzed by a degenerative nerve disease, Hawking is one of the world's most accomplished physicists, renowned for his breakthroughs in the study of gravitation and cosmology. Yet the man who holds the prestigious Cambridge University professorship once occupied by Sir Isaac Newton was overwhelmed by the sheer size and complexity of the machine before him. Joked Hawking: "This reminds me of one of those James Bond movies, where some mad scientist is plotting to take over the world...
...neither he nor anyone else seems capable of braking the new arms spiral. "The superpowers can't impose a settlement," says Martin Indyk, executive director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. "They can only encourage the parties to settle." Perhaps the only hope is that the sheer terror of Armageddon, if not reason, will bring all parties back to their senses. That terror helped keep the superpowers from each other's throats for 45 years. Whether it can do so in the Middle East is another question altogether...
...that their historical culture was being overwhelmed by immigrants, but conflicts between earlier- arriving English, Germans and Irish and later-arriving Italians and Jews did not have the obvious and enduring element of racial skin color. And there was never a time when the nonmainstream elements could claim, through sheer numbers, the potential to unite and exert political dominance. Says Bender: | "The real question is whether or not our notion of diversity can successfully negotiate the color line...
...Bogart classic. One ominous sign: the film's director is Michael Cimino, the noted flopmeister, and its star is Mickey Rourke, no big draw. Uh-oh: Has Dino done it again? The title of another forthcoming De Laurentiis production seems to convey his message to anyone who doubts his sheer chutzpah and tenacity: Over My Dead Body...
...hitting the books, most college kids like to hang out. Now some of them are hanging out by hanging on -- to rocks. On a growing number of campuses from Berkeley to Princeton, the latest sport craze is indoor climbing walls, structures of concrete and stone that replicate sheer mountain faces. Fans say that climbing the walls, armed with no special equipment, offers a new high in concentration, exertion (and sheer terror) that leaves jogging and aerobic dance flat-footed...