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...Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility for the shooting, but at week's end police had found no trace of the gunman...
...University of Edinburgh is trying to make computer models of the way people produce sentences and understand language. Floyd Bloom, 37, chief of the laboratory of neuropharmacology at the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Md., and Walle Nauta, 57, of M.I.T., are using special staining techniques to trace the brain's neuronal pathways. "We have a long way to go," says Bloom, "but every little piece of information we gather leads us toward a better understanding of the way that the brain reacts to the outside world...
...Boucher, as the Goncourts put it, it was "a vocation to leave some trace of his art on every passing manifestation of fashion." The tumbling, rosy cupids and tiny pastoral scenes with shepherds in knee breeches that are the cliches of rococo chinaware decoration were largely Boucher's doing. He painted on fans and carriage doors, snuffboxes, escritoires and ostrich eggs. And when Louis XV put Boucher in control of the state tapestry factories at Beauvais and Gobelin, he brought about the last flourish of grand-scale European weaving. No designer since Boucher has managed to raise tapestry...
...converter, however, raises some new and very sticky difficulties of its own. Most important is the fact that it cannot be used with leaded gasoline, since even a trace of lead would foul the device beyond repair. As a result, the EPA has ordered the oil industry to make lead-free gasoline available at all major gas stations by next summer. Another problem is that the converter emits minute amounts of yet another pollutant -a fine mist of sulfuric acid. One solution might be for refineries to reduce the amount of sulfur in gasoline...
...Carrero Blanco had only one answer: to either ignore it altogether or break it with force. "Politics for me consists of total loyalty to El Caudillo," he proudly proclaimed. "My loyalty to his person and to his work is total, without a shadow of any personal conditions or a trace of mental reservation." When he took over the reins of day-to-day government six months ago-Franco himself retains ultimate authority-Carrero Blanco quickly replaced those officials he thought were liberal, or even slightly forward looking, with ironclad conservatives. "Carrero Blanco never had an original idea in his life...