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...then been dominated by a potentially hopeful outbreak of meetings and discussions. For the first time the U.S. entered the fray in a major way. Assistant Secretary of State Gaston Sigur was dispatched on a hastily arranged three-day visit to Seoul with instructions to assess the situation and warn the government against a military crackdown. Chun, for his part, offered a major concession to his opponents. But opposition leaders rejected the President's peace offering and returned defiantly to the streets...
Moreover, Harvard officials see dangers in the increasing trend toward "Big Science" projects such as the billion dollar supercollider. They warn that neglecting smaller scientific projects will stifle a large amount of invaluable scientific innovation...
...controversial than the Surgeon General's insistence that the public be taught about condom use and other safe-sex techniques. Yet such radical proposals are directed precisely to where the danger is now greatest. The alarm over AIDS and its potential spread into the heterosexual population has served to warn the public of its virulence and concentrate government attention on research and prevention. But now it is important to calm the fears of those who are not at great risk and provide help and education to those...
Once a port of call for NATO warships, Malta under Labor increasingly turned to the Soviet Union, North Korea and Libya for economic and military aid. So close were security ties with Libyan Strongman Muammar Gaddafi that Maltese officials tried to warn Tripoli minutes before last year's U.S. air raid on Libya...
Some scientists warn against going overboard with the new technique. Says James Blinn, a Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientist who created some of NASA's most spectacular computer simulations of planetary flybys: "Sometimes a half- baked idea gets printed up prettily and gets more attention than it deserves." Still, Blinn believes, as long as the scientific data used to generate the images are accurate, computer graphics can prod scientists to move in exciting new directions. NCSA's Upson agrees. "If we play our cards right," he says, "we may actually make a dent in how people do science...