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...anticipation of the announcement, an overflow crowd had crammed into the meeting of the American Physical Society in Washington last week, and they were not disappointed. "If you're religious, it's like looking at God," proclaimed the leader of the research team, George Smoot, an astrophysicist at the University of California, Berkeley. Princeton astrophysicist David Spergel, who had recently co-authored a theory that was demolished by the COBE results, cheerily admitted, "We're dead. But this is great stuff . . . It's the most important discovery in cosmology in the past 20 years...
More than ever, trade is the key to prosperity. The recession of 1931 became the Great Depression of 1932 after the Smoot-Hawley tariffs contributed to the collapse of world markets. Since trade accounts for 25% of U.S. GNP today, a trade war would trigger a depression that would make the present downturn look like a minor blip...
...writing of the swastika was "heinous and anachronistic," said Jeanne L. Smoot '93, a Lowell House resident...
...peer counseling group, which deals primarily with eating-and weight-related issues, has changed its name from Eating Problems Outreach (EPO) to Eating Concerns Hotline and Outreach (ECHO) to indicate that its counseling is open to general problems, not just weight-related ones, said ECHO counselor Samantha J. Smoot...
Such defensiveness would have seemed unlikely a few weeks ago. Not since Smoot-Hawley days had Washington witnessed such an explosion of demand to limit imports as occurred in August and early September. Fretted Sir Roy Denman, Ambassador of the European Community to Washington: "We have seen protectionist sentiment before, but never anything like this...