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...second law of thermodynamics, never gives you anything for nothing. Now some engineers in Boston have come close to defying that unbreakable rule. They have produced a building that heats itself without a furnace or conventional fuel and remains warm even during such blustery periods as the recent cold spell, when Boston temperatures plunged to 0°F. The building performs this scientific magic by a cunning engineering stratagem: it recaptures the waste heat of its own machinery, everything from computers to coffeemakers, as well as of the 2,000 people who will eventually work inside...
...lightly fictionalized, heavily romanticized Al Capone. That Scarface ran 90 minutes; this one ambles along at nearly twice the length. The first film has a screwball-comedy briskness that made Tony an outsized monster, a festering lesion on the body politic, without stopping more than once or twice to spell out social message. The new Scarface is at bottom a bitter comedy about the perils of drug abuse, and De Palma directs his actors to play at the pitch of gross grandiosity but at the pace of a chamber drama...
Even so, the Dominican Republic incident provoked an undercurrent of resentment in Latin America that helped spell the end of the Alliance for Progress. "Ever since the invasion of the Dominican Republic, we've been trying to tell other countries that the U.S. has forsworn military intervention," says Sol Linowitz, a former U.S. Ambassador to the O.A.S. who helped negotiate the Panama Canal Treaty. By far the greatest cost of the Grenada invasion, and the new assertiveness it exemplifies, may be that it resurrects in Latin America the "Yankee imperialist" stereotype that the U.S. has been struggling to shake...
...buttress its case, the agency has placed in evidence voluminous documents that spell out details of the family business never before made public. They indicate that the holdings acquired by Newhouse, the son of poor Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, have grown into America's biggest family-owned media conglomerate. After two years spent interviewing Newhouse executives and studying financial records, IRS Appraiser Joseph Baniewicz put a value of $1.23 billion on the estate at the time of the publisher's death. Sons Donald, 53, and Samuel I. Newhouse Jr., 55, who seem to have inherited their father...
...political peace. It sets itself a relatively easy mark-to illustrate the ravages of nuclear war-but a punishingly high goal. It may be that no television film has ever had such ambition, or presumption, and just so no one misses the point, the network and the film makers spell it out in grave white letters just before the final fade: "It is hoped that the images of this film will inspire the nations of this earth, their people and leaders, to find the means to avert the fateful...