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Healy's zeal to yoke public schools with libraries springs from his long commitment to the poor, particularly members of minorities. He firmly believes that in the future, America will be "multicolored" and had better be ready to make the most of it. Some 16 years ago, he tried to start a community college in the Bedford Stuyvesant ghetto in Brooklyn (it failed for lack of funding). Perhaps the high point of his career was the years at CUNY where, with fighting-Irish brio, he led the fray surrounding the open-admissions policy, in the early '70s a divisive urban...
...most devastating nuclear weapons: warheads carried by land- and submarine-based ballistic missiles and aircraft. But proliferating cruise missiles presented more difficulty. The U.S. at one point thought it had Moscow's agreement to leave sea-launched cruise missiles out of the treaty; each side would merely make "politically binding" declarations of how many it intended to deploy. Last week the U.S. essentially got its way when the Soviets agreed to a separate declaration outside the main treaty that would limit each side to 880 SLCMs...
Technicalities, however, were not the real point; political will was. On the American side, there was some suspicion that Gorbachev would be unable to make any but the tiniest additional concessions. Reason: he was under fire from military leaders who (with some justification) feared that the treaty was shaping up in a fashion skewed in favor of the U.S. On the Soviet side, there was some concern that the U.S. would try to push an already embattled Gorbachev to the wall. One way to do so: insisting on a ban on mobile missiles with multiple warheads, which the U.S.S.R...
...Like all Evangelicals, you believe in the Second Coming of Christ, to be preceded by unprecedented worldwide warfare, famine and cruelty. But doesn't the waning of the cold war make such an apocalypse more remote today than, say, ten years...
While the two LIGO installations by themselves will enable scientists to tune in to heavenly disasters, the addition of two more facilities would make it possible to determine the precise locations of the events. Says Vogt: "There are proposals pending to build gravity-wave observatories in Europe and Australia, and we're hoping to put together an international network." That will take time, and some of the most important discoveries lie years in the future. But just as Galileo did with his crude telescope in the early 1600s, the first generation of gravity-wave astronomers will undoubtedly learn things right...