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Researchers struggle to find the cause of the mysterious, strength- sapping "fatigue syndrome." -- Drugs and diet shrink fat deposits...
Another reason for Volcker's status, though, was the absence of any coherent U.S. fiscal policy during most of his tenure. While he presided at the Fed, the U.S. growing budget deficit steadily ballooned, eventually reaching a record $221 billion last year. This year the deficit is expected to shrink only to a still terrifying $175 billion. Volcker's great contribution has been to ensure that the Fed did not crank up the U.S. money supply -- and thus fuel inflation -- to accommodate the budget gap. Instead, the deficits have increasingly been financed by foreigners, chiefly Japanese, who in turn have...
...outnumber and outgun NATO that only nuclear arms could redress the balance. This conventional forces "gap" has legitimized NATO's reliance on nuclear weapons, which in turn has allowed the alliance to hold down its spending on nonnuclear forces. Now, however, with NATO's nuclear inventory likely to shrink, fears are surfacing that decades of nuclear dependence may have left the alliance with insufficient conventional clout to keep the peace...
...Bowen demonstrated in his first Ethics story (on AIDS, Feb. 2) and in his discussion of the legal views of Attorney General Edwin Meese III (ESSAY, Aug. 11, 1986), he does not shrink from judgment. "I'm no holier-than-thou type," says Bowen, "but it has been my experience that the best guys I've known in life have had profound ethical concerns." At the top of his list of ethically minded people is his late mother, the prominent biographer Catherine Drinker Bowen, whose books chronicled the lives of Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., President John Adams...
Some scientists, particularly those opposed to the SSC for other reasons, have expressed concern that the rapid developments in superconductivity could warrant a redesign of the accelerator. "It might be possible to shrink the radius down to ten miles," says Cornell Physicist James Krumhansl, president- elect of the American Physical Society. "What I say is, let's put the matter into one more year of research and development and review it next year...