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...charged electrons combine with positively charged protons to form additional neutrons; the process also produces the ethereal neutrinos, which effortlessly zip through the star's outer layers and into space. Under these circumstances, there is a limit to how much the neutrons can be compressed. As gravity tightens its grip further, the neutrons, in what Hans Bethe, Cornell University's Nobel laureate physicist, has called the "moment of maximum scrunch," recoil ferociously...
Whoever succeeds De la Madrid will have to grapple with ever louder calls for the P.R.I. to loosen its iron grip. Each of the three men now being touted for the presidency has had opportunities to observe other political models while studying at American or European universities. Seemingly first among equals is Alfredo del Mazo Gonzalez, 43, De la Madrid's Minister of Energy. Del Mazo has held bank posts and served as governor of the state of Mexico before assuming his current portfolio, which has demanded careful management of Mexico's precious oil reserves while the sag in prices...
...young man at the time, still in the grip of youthful immaturity, living from day to day in the sunshine of youth. I was kicking around Manhattan one day, a little depressed because J. Paul Getty's widow had just written me a Dear John letter, which was especially annoying because my name, of course, is really Rutger...
Ronald Reagan is not necessarily doomed to repeat the dispiriting pattern of failure that has hounded too many recent Presidents. If the Iran-contra scandal has left many Americans uneasy about Reagan's grip on his job, last week's performance demonstrated that the still popular President retains at least some of his powers. But if he is to recoup, he will have to resist his tendency to rely on theatrics rather than hard work. As the President and the First Lady departed for Camp David last week, Reagan cheerfully bantered with a group of young supporters. Talking about...
...That move would allow the party that controls the National . Assembly to name a Prime Minister. But opponents argue that under South Korea's complex method of apportioning seats, such a system would give Chun's Democratic Justice Party a stranglehold on power. That in turn would perpetuate the grip of Chun's strongest supporter, the 600,000-member armed forces, on the political life of the country...