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Many subcontractors and company towns will be hit hard as well. "The big prime contractors can take care of themselves. What worries me is the small fish," says Gordon Adams, director of the Defense Budget Project, a Washington-based research group. Since 1982 the number of U.S. firms making hardware for the Pentagon has plummeted from 120,000 to only 40,000. The new defense cuts will almost certainly drive thousands more out of the military- supply business. "You bet we are concerned!" says Bill Barth, president of Right Away Foods, an Edinburg, Texas, packer of C rations, which relies...
...meantime, the fallout from Salinger and New Era has had what is usually described in literary circles as a "chilling effect." Publishers are cautious about acquiring new books that may cause long delays and legal expenses. Writers who have devoted years and heavy expenses to a project can suddenly find their efforts wasted. After two decades of research for his biography of Malcolm X, Bruce Perry, a scholar formerly on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, is eliminating major portions of his book. They include extensive paraphrasings from Malcolm's autobiography -- a work, incidentally, that was written by Alex...
...need to be plugged into an outlet for about six hours to get fully recharged. Now the city of Los Angeles and a California power company have proposed a radical solution to the problem of powering electric cars: electrify the roads. Last week they announced a $2 million demonstration project in which electric cables will be run under 300 meters (1,000 ft.) of roadway in a west Los Angeles development called Playa Vista. Electricity from the cables would be used both to power electric cars and to recharge their batteries for travel on conventional roads...
Still, the electric-roadway project is generating a lot of excitement in pollution-plagued Los Angeles. "I'm thrilled," says Jim Lents, executive officer of the South Coast Air Quality Management District, which voted last spring to require that all cars in Southern California operate on electricity or other clean fuel by the year 2007. "This is what we were hoping to stimulate." Automakers have also been tinkering along these lines. Peugeot and Fiat have announced plans to sell electric vehicles in Europe within the next few years, and Ford is testing an electrified model of the Aerostar...
...kind of research project most social scientists avoid. The researcher had to lay out $50,000 of his own money. He spent six years in one + of Detroit's most dangerous neighborhoods in the company of two of the most violent street gangs in America. He routinely asked highly personal questions of edgy young men who earn small fortunes selling drugs and have few qualms about killing people who inquire too closely about their activities...