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Last winter the U.S. dollar was rising powerfully, setting records against the French franc, the West German mark and the Italian lira. During the long, hot summer, though, the dollar has sweltered and gone limp. Main reason: fears that the U.S. economy may be stagnating. Since late February, the dollar's value has dropped 25% against the British pound, 10% against the Japanese yen and 14% against the lira. Last week the greenback lost ground in four of five trading sessions, closing Friday at its lowest level in more than a year against the German mark and the French franc...
...talks with Gorbachev. The West Europeans evinced considerable relief that the summit had gone as well as it did. Caught in the middle, they had grown apprehensive about the deep superpower chill during Reagan's first term. "Now, after Geneva, there is no need for pessimism," proclaimed West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. "I am an optimist...
Some scientists have attempted to explain away the discrepancy by suggesting that the astronomers of antiquity had observed the star when it was low in the sky; like the setting sun, it appeared red because of particles in the earth's atmosphere. Now two German researchers argue that the ancients did see a red Sirius--and as recently as the 6th century...
...German researchers have no idea exactly when Sirius B collapsed into the white-dwarf stage and no longer obscured Sirius A's white light. Depending on the original mass of Sirius B, the star's transformation could have ranged from a gradual shrinkage to a sudden collapse that resulted in a gigantic explosion that blew much of its stellar matter into space...
...clue may exist. Spectrographic studies of Sirius A, the German researchers note, show that it has a metallic content higher than normal for stars of its type. The excess metal, they say, could have been showered on Sirius A when its red giant companion collapsed and exploded. The fact that no other evidence of an explosion exists, and that most astronomers say it should, does not disturb Schlosser. "Because of Sirius," he says, "we may have to change our theories about the life and metamorphosis of stars." --By Leon Jaroff. Reported by Andrea Dorfman/New York and William McWhirter/Bonn