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Who needs such blinding speed? At the Livermore Lab and NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif. (which is scheduled to receive the second Cray-2 in September), the new machines will be used for such projects as studying the intense magnetic fields needed for fusion reactors and...
Also work harder. Earlier this month, for instance, the Soviets expanded the definition of "diplomatic pouch" to ship 35 tons of cargo marked embassy "household goods" out of Baltimore harbor without the presence of even a single Customs inspector. Pentagon officials blamed the State Department for naively waving the shipment...
Oilmen would finally lose their long-cherished depletion allowance. It would be phased out over five years, except on the very smallest wells (those producing 10 bbl. a day or less). But oil operators saved a far more important tax benefit. The Treasury had originally wanted to make them stretch...
Nadkarni plans to attend medical school after Harvard, but he has put these plans on hold because of his impending marriage. Nadkarni was accepted by Columbia's top-flight medical school, but he and his fiancee decided against it because of the unsafe neighborhood.
Scientists have refined their skills to the point where they now believe that under certain conditions they can predict an earthquake. Last week the U.S. Geological Survey for the first time pronounced an impending shake-up: the tiny ranch community of Parkfield, Calif. (pop. 34), has a more than 90...