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Local meetings like the one in Bayville will occur for two months, but already the sentiment is clear. Says Russell Verney, U.W.S.A.'s new executive director: ``There is a great deal of energy out there behind a new party.'' It will take all that energy and more to overcome the many legal and procedural obstacles thrown up by states, but Perot is yearning for a new crusade...
Earthquakes, it turns out, have a lot in common with tornadoes: they are capricious beasts ruled by what physicists refer to as nonlinear dynamics, which means precise forecasting of when and where they will occur is impossible. In theory, major earthquakes should be preceded by smaller shocks. They are, but the earliest foreshocks may be so weak as to be hard to distinguish from background seismic ``noise.'' And for every small tremor that is followed by a big quake, others may not be followed by anything much...
...Intellectually, one of my concerns is to lower the boundaries between classically defined disciplines," Knowels said. Nature and knowledge were not tidily divided into the subjects of University departments. So often, exciting advances occur on the edges, of our fields, which are the edges of some-one else...
Simpson's lawyers fought back with the arguments that the Simpson marriage was no worse than most, and that even if acts of violence did occur, they were not comparable to the savagery of the murder. Attorney Gerald Uelman even suggested in court that the murder resembled a drug-related homicide, a scenario the defense team has been busily feeding to journalists for months. At the end of the week the defense launched its counteroffensive with an admissibility issue of its own: Will the jury be allowed to hear racist remarks allegedly made by Los Angeles police detective Mark Fuhrman...
...would not bring any charges against the Reagan Administration official owing to lack of evidence. But the prosecutor, whose probe has resulted in 16 convictions of subordinates and others, forced Pierce to release a statement admitting that "my own conduct contributed to an environment in which these events could occur...