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Nebular Dust. Actually, that business has a promising future. Besides illuminating the complex mechanisms of stellar evolution and the building of elements, it could yield important clues to the origin of the universe. By measuring the effect on interstellar molecules of the so-called background radiation* (believed to be the faint remnant of the "big bang" that, according to one theory, created the universe), astronomers may learn more about the primordial explosion. Most intriguing of all, the molecules could provide tantalizing evidence of lifebuilding far from earth...
Until the discovery of complex interstellar molecules, astronomers were convinced that ultraviolet radiation and cosmic rays would quickly disintegrate any stray organic molecules that might form in deep space. Now they know that such molecules-which are essential to terrestrial life-can survive between the stars, apparently shielded by nebular dust. Indeed, Radio Astronomer David Buhl, one of those who found formaldehyde last year, thinks that organic molecules exist in considerable abundance in interstellar space. If so, he says, "life similar to ours" may well have evolved elsewhere among the 100 billion stars of the Milky...
REPORT FROM WASTELAND: AMERICA'S MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX by Senator William Proxmire. 248 pages. Praeger...
...this book, Proxmire brings together all his criticisms of the Pentagon and its suppliers. He takes his text from Dwight Eisenhower's valedictory warning against "unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex...
...deliberately lie in order to get Congress committed to the program in the first place. "Military spending in the U.S. is out of control," Proxmire concludes. There is, he adds in a Germanic, jawbreaking locution, "a military-industrial-bureaucratic-trade-association-labor-union-intellectual -technical -academic -service-club-political complex whose pervasiveness touches nearly every citizen...