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Fallows uses dozens of examples to illustrate the dangers of trying to build "magic weapons," be they missiles with so many computers they will virtually assure victory or "super" tanks that corner like 40-ton Ferraris. War, he quotes Clausewitz, is both unpredictable and filled with "friction"--everything from bad...
This year marked the fiftieth anniversary of the undergraduate House system at Harvard. But the opportunity to celebrate the history of what one House master calls "the only thing that makes the Harvard undergraduate experience bearable" was largely missed. Instead of dressing up the Houses for a grand, festive occasion...
Nuclear Scanning. Using this technique, doctors can examine the heart's pumping performance and check for evidence of obstruction in the coronary arteries. Radioactive isotopes with affinities for certain tissues are injected into the bloodstream. A special imaging device, called a scintillation camera, picks up the gamma rays emitted...
While other forecasters were predicting earlier this year that weakness in the economy would drive interest rates steadily down, Kaufman and Wojnilower strongly dissented. In March Wojnilower warned: "An embedded inflation rate of 10% now has little chance of receding, and it's only a matter of several weeks...
Secretary of State Alexander Haig notes that U.S. policy toward South Africa is under review, but Administration officials insist there is no major shift in the works. They do say, though, that Ronald Reagan's dealings with South Africa "will not be exactly the same" as Jimmy Carter'...