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Rising out of a field on the campus of Princeton University is an eerie-looking Dacron-covered dome that suggests a wayward spaceship. Inside is something that looks either like a miniature Matterhorn or perhaps a giant Sno-Cone wrapped in plastic. In fact, the mound is the tip of an iceberg. Beneath it, nestled into a 10-ft.-deep hole in the ground, is a thick heap of slowly melting ice. To its creator, Theodore Taylor, a nuclear physicist turned alternative-energy researcher, the pile of ice is proof that there are better and cheaper ways than air conditioning...
...capital will be left with only one major newspaper, the Washington Post (daily circ. 618,000). This was cause for mourning in a city where decision makers depend on a full and vigorous airing of important public issues. "An extremely sad day," said President Ronald Reagan. Added House Speaker Tip O'Neill: "We ought to have newspapers expressing opposite philosophies." Even the victor in this journalistic struggle did not celebrate. "The demise of the Star," said Post Publisher Donald Graham, "is dreadful for Washington and for anyone who loves newspapers...
...crews have taken over the base's only gymnasium. They repack drive shafts on the basketball court beneath a sign that reads NO DUNKING ALLOWED. At Rivers barracks near Giessen, nearly 3,000 soldiers are crammed into what was a Wehrmacht military prison during World War II. "The tip-off is that the barbed-wire-fence topping points in, not out," says an officer stationed there...
Liberal politicians joined the praise. House Speaker Tip O'Neill, who has been feuding with Reagan over his budget cuts and tax policies, termed the choice "the best thing he's done since he was inaugurated." Said Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy, who sits on the Judiciary Committee that will hold hearings on O'Connor's nomination: "Every American can take pride in the President's commitment to select such a woman for this critical office...
...from the Sinai Peninsula, which is scheduled to take place next April. At that time, the agreement also calls for the removal of some 5,000 Israeli settlers who have moved into agricultural communes near the Mediterranean and into tourist centers along the Red Sea coast on the southern tip of the Sinai. Two of the parties to which Begin would be beholden in a coalition are in favor of keeping the settlers there. If a government crisis developed over the issue, the Israeli withdrawal might be delayed, thereby causing problems for other elements of the Camp David accords...