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...University and union will ultimately agree on a third party to help mediate their differences. The two sides, while far apart on many issues, still appear willing to negotiate the morale problem, and the union has thus far avoided raising the threat of a work action that could only cloud the dispute even further. Yet the University's apparent reluctance to reach a quick agreement with the union on the preliminary question of a third party to the negotiations creates some doubt as to its willingness to face the important non-salary issues that concern union members. Its failure...
...elementary particles. One of the principal achievements of physics in the 20th century has been the revelation that the atom is not indivisible or elementary at all but has a complex structure. In 1911 Ernest Rutherford showed that the atom consists of a small, dense nucleus surrounded by a cloud of electrons. It was subsequently revealed that the nucleus itself can be broken down into discrete particles, the protons and neutrons, and since then a great many related particles have been identified. During the past decade it has become apparent that those particles too are complex rather than elementary. They...
...there's the story, of a lot of hard work without a coach holding a stopwatch or leaving a cloud of chalkdust...
Some scientists would like to see weather-modification programs accelerated. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Colorado State University and others have conducted studies showing that carefully designed cloud-seeding programs can increase snowfall in areas of the Rockies by 15% or more, and Colorado authorities have appropriated nearly $200,000 for seeding clouds in four areas of their state. Lewis Grant of Colorado State University believes that clouds over the Rockies should be seeded routinely in years of abnormally low snowfall. Says he: "As far as I'm concerned, the medicine has been on the shelf ready...
Safety Valve. But weather modification could also prove to be a mixed blessing. Ray Davis, a University of Arizona law professor, says rainmaking could be considered a form of "cloud rustling" and believes that diverting another nation's or state's cloud system could be construed as illegal diversion of its water. Says Davis, "If one country causes environmental harm to another, there is liability." He also cautions that weather modification could become a form of warfare, enabling hostile countries to cause droughts or floods in the lands of their enemies...