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...counter criticisms that Harvard would, as one professor said, turn "into a breeding ground for well-to-do foreign yuppies," Nye quotes studies which demonstrate the social and economic diversity of Harvard's current international student body...
...militarily it is comfortably noninvolved. None of its soldiers have been or will be sent to the gulf, and virtually all the German hostages returned from Iraq two weeks ago. There have been only minor antiwar demonstrations. Fuel-price increases have failed to stimulate debate: long before the current crisis, Bonn imposed heavy gasoline taxes to encourage conservation; thus higher costs for crude only marginally affected German pump prices, which run in excess...
Given the long gestation time for PBS programs, Lawson's impact on the schedule will not fully emerge for at least a year or two. But an early indication came last month, when Lawson made public her list of current PBS series that will be funded for next season. Most of the PBS fixtures, from the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour to Nova, will be back, as will independently financed series like Mobil's Masterpiece Theatre. But Lawson decided to end funding for the children's show Newton's Apple and the documentary series American Masters after one more season. (Both series...
...operating centrifuges. Furthermore, since the centrifuges process the uranium in a "cascade" operation that requires multiple transfers of the gas, they would have to be sited in a single giant plant that could not be hidden. No such facility has been detected by U.S. spy satellites, and current intelligence estimates put the number of centrifuges acquired by Iran at about two dozen. With that number, says Mark Hibbs, European editor of Nucleonics Week, it would take eight to 10 years to produce enough U-235 for one bomb...
...long as it emphasizes the sweep of history, this encyclopedia has dignity and flair. When it tries to keep up with current events, the book often resembles a hardbound USA Today. An untroubled Donald Trump appears, along with Wayne Gretzky, Jimmy Breslin and Oprah Winfrey. Parapsychology and the occult are given two massively illustrated layouts; the Holocaust merits less than half a page. In the section on American writers, James Baldwin stares out from a large color portrait, while Mark Twain is granted a small black-and- white snapshot, and Henry James is not seen at all, though oddly enough...