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Today, except at a few specially equipped fields like London's Heathrow Airport, such daring Category III, "zero ceiling, zero visibility" landings are not possible. Aviation experts agree, though, that in a decade or two all major airports will be served by standardized electronic wizardry that will make landings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A New MLS, But Whose? | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

In the first stage of the experiment, NIH'S Malcolm Martin and Wallace Rowe will splice DNA from the polyoma virus (which causes tumors in mice but not in humans) into a specially engineered strain of the common bacteria Escherichia coli. The bacteria will be fed to or injected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Leakproof Lab | 4/3/1978 | See Source »

It was designed as a textbook cloak-and-dagger intelligence operation. Clandestine meetings were arranged by passing filmed instructions that were stuffed inside a hollow stick or in a specially designed pack of Marlboro cigarettes. There were coded passwords and complex secret-signal systems. Using these elaborate precautions, the Soviet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ESPIONAGE: The Mounties Get Their Man | 2/20/1978 | See Source »

A specially-equipped van for handicapped Harvard students is in operation this semester as a supplement to regular shuttle service, Dorothy Moser, a staff assistant in President Bok's office, said yesterday.

Author: By Theodore S. Chandler, | Title: Disabled Students Obtain Shuttle Van With Faculty Grant | 2/14/1978 | See Source »

Despite discouragement of plea bargaining, conviction rates are startlingly high: 94% nationally, compared with a regular conviction rate of 73%. That rate naturally troubles defense attorneys. Some of them are critical of the program on grounds that it is racist, because a notable percentage of career criminals are black. Others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Stopping Crime as a Career | 1/30/1978 | See Source »

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