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Last week the Queen journeyed from Soestdijk Palace to the little Huis Ten Bosch Palace outside The Hague to consult with the leaders of The Netherlands' fiercely independent factions on how to put together a new government. After interrupting her talks for a visit to the dentist, she finally...
The situation is not in as critical a condition as that. As Chemical and Engineering News pointed out last week, space contracts have become an important part of the political pork barrel. "Legislators are caught in a serious political-economic squeeze. More than 90% of the space budget goes to...
From a fortresslike grey stone headquarters beside the Thames near Parliament, the directors of Britain's largest nongovernment enterprise supervise an imperial giant with bases in 48 nations. Led by lean, nimble Chairman Stanley Paul Chambers, 59. they run their decentralized, globe-circling operation with the same easy writing...
The hospital patient who complains that the water in his bedside carafe is not fit to drink is usually right, reports the New England Journal of Medicine. In fact, the stuff could kill him. It was patients' complaints that set a team of Harvard University physicians and Peter Bent...
Last week the University of Michigan started a fund-raising drive for its "Phoenix Project": a nonGovernment, nonsecret center of nuclear research. Already, $750,000 has been given or pledged in a drive for a fund of $6,500,000.