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Dark-horse candidates don't come much darker than Stanislaw Tyminski, the runner-up in Poland's presidential election last week. One of the few things voters know about him for sure is that he doesn't live in Poland. He makes his home in suburban Toronto, where he owns a computer company and heads the minuscule Libertarian Party of Canada. He won't even promise to move back to Poland if he wins this Sunday's runoff election. He does say he can lift his native land out of its present economic mess. He just...
Walesa is still the favorite in next week's vote, but a victory could turn out to be a mixed blessing for him and for Poland. "Walesa can't produce an economic miracle, and that's exactly what the people expect," says Stanislaw Stomma, a member of the Polish Senate. "Tadeusz got used up, and now it's Walesa's turn." Some fear that the difficulty of delivering on people's hopes for economic revival will eventually prompt Walesa to abuse the undefined presidential powers in the new constitution, which is still being drafted. During the campaign Walesa hinted...
...adaptive, self- replicating machines -- cleaning up toxic wastes, perhaps, or exploring outer space. There is a danger, though, that such machines could multiply uncontrollably, like the viruses that have disrupted computer networks. Doyne Farmer, a physicist at the Los Alamos lab, points to a cautionary science- fiction tale by Stanislaw Lem. In Lem's Fiasco, space explorers discover a Saturn-like planet with a ring around it. On closer inspection, the ring turns out to be a swarm of attack satellites and killer robots, part of a "star wars" defense shield that had reproduced itself over and over again. Artificial...
...According to Daniel Hirsch and William Mathews, what Fuchs gave the Soviets was an early design of Teller's that turned out to be unworkable. The crucial insight, they say, came after Fuchs had been imprisoned, and it was supplied not by Teller but by his Los Alamos colleague Stanislaw Ulam. Says Hirsch, former director of the nuclear- policy program at the University of California at Santa Cruz: "In many ways, Stan Ulam was the true father of the H-bomb...
Back in 1947, as it became clear that Poland's Peasant Party would beat the Communists, Stalin's army cut off its phones and eventually sent the party's chieftain, Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, fleeing to the West. In Hungary that year, after the anti-Communist Smallholders Party won power, the Soviet army arrested its leader and forced a confession of subversion...