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Wynn has been able to supplement such papal encounters with background information from an array of well-placed Vatican sources. "There is one advantage to getting older," says Wynn. "If you hang around long enough, your lower-echelon contacts eventually move up to positions of eminence." Says Associate Editor Richard Ostling, TIME's Religion writer since 1975 and the author of this week's cover story on the state of the church: "Wilton Wynn is one of the finest reporters of this generation, and a key part of TIME's Vatican coverage." Ostling is not alone in that view. During...
...feeble light of the distant sun, Voyager 2 hurtled toward Uranus last week, rapidly accelerating under the gravitational pull of the huge gaseous body. Aboard the spacecraft, two television cameras and an array of instruments focused on the ever enlarging sphere and its rings and moons, snapping pictures and taking readings that were beamed to earth, almost 2 billion miles away. At week's end, as Voyager whipped past the mysterious blue-green planet, soaring as close as 50,679 miles to its cloudtops at 42,143 m.p.h., streams of new data from the craft poured into the control room...
...resign ourselves to the existence of 50,000 nuclear charges in the superpowers' arsenals and the perverse confidence that a balance of terror will prevent any of them from ever going off. The President imagined a time when those weapons could be rendered "impotent and obsolete" by deploying an array of kinetic-energy projectiles, lasers, directed particle beams or other exotic devices that would prevent enemy warheads from ever reaching their targets. No more threat of intercontinental mass homicide, no more superpower suicide pact, no more Mutual Assured Destruction. In place of that MADness would be pure protection: a defense...
...used in tandem, creating the equivalent of a gigantic 590-in. mirror, or separately. Overseas, Japanese astronomers also have their eyes on Mauna Kea; they hope to build a 295-in. telescope on the volcano by the 1990s. The European Southern Observatory, headquartered in Munich, is considering an array of four 315-in. telescopes that could, like the N.O.A.O. instrument, act in concert...
Interestingly, Turner was completing a book of his own, German Big Business and the Rise of Hitler. That volume, scheduled for publication by Oxford on Jan. 20, attributes the Weimar Republic's demise to an array of historical causes. "Only through gross distortion," writes Turner, "can big business be accorded a crucial or even major role." Privately, he now comments, "If Abraham's right, I'm wrong...