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There's no escaping anality; Cambridge also seems full of these types. The bank I frequent has signals at each window that light up and ring gently when the tellers are ready for the next customer. Recently, I was at the window next to the one which is directly at the head of the line. The teller there politely asked the person in front if he could help...
When an automated-teller machine refused to return her bank card, Diana Collier did not think much of it. But when two check-guarantee cards also failed to work, she thought something might be fishy. She was right: her $60 eel-skin wallet had apparently demagnetized her cards...
Woodruff questions whether Teller passed along such doubts to the President or his aides. In 1983, he points out, Teller sent a letter to then White House Science Adviser George Keyworth saying the laser was ready for "engineering phase" -- implying that only a few details remained to be worked out before the weapon could be built. And as late as 1987, Lowell Wood, a manager of weapons development at Livermore and Teller's protege, told a House subcommittee how "X-ray lasers can be used to destroy any type of platforms in space, including defensive platforms, so the counterdefensive role...
Woodruff claims he confronted Lab Director Batzel several times, asking him to refute the claims made by Teller and Wood. Batzel allegedly refused. According to Woodruff, Batzel explained by saying "No one listens to Edward and Lowell." In fact, says Woodruff, at that time "Teller was the only guy in the lab who could go and see the President." Because of Teller's reputation for hyperbole, concedes Democratic Representative from California George Brown Jr., an SDI opponent and the member of the House intelligence committee who initiated a General Accounting Office probe, "Those in Congress and the scientific community tend...
...Teller and Wood, for their part, refuse to comment directly on Woodruff's charges. Even so, Teller told TIME last week, "I'm most unhappy to see a great scientific discovery, the X-ray laser, is reported not for its merits or its possible use for defense, but as an object of controversy." Contends Livermore Physicist Hugh DeWitt: "Woodruff did a damn good job of blowing the whistle on the extravagant claims of those two men." And while Woodruff's employment status has been resolved, the issues have not. The conclusions of the GAO investigation are expected by June...