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...root of the Sohio confusion is the DOE'S Kafkaesque "entitlements" system, which dates back to the first 1973-74 OPEC oil price increases, and attempts to equalize the cost of crude to all oil refiners. Firms buying cheap domestic oil are taxed a certain amount for being "entitled" to acquire inexpensive crude. That money is then given back to refiners who import expensive OPEC oil and to refiners who use expensive uncontrolled domestic oil. The program, in effect, subsidizes imported oil at a time when official Government policy is to discourage imports. Though North Slope oil is domestic...
Massive, oscillating neutrinos could help theoreticians develop a more accurate picture of matter and perhaps find an underlying unity in the forces governing it. Says Nobel Laureate Sheldon Glashow: "With the discovery, we are at the root of what matter is made of and what the rules are by which elementary constituents are held together." The Reines theory could also explain why earlier experiments had detected a fraction of the expected flood of neutrinos from the nuclear fires of the sun. This had caused some scientists to offer the chilling thought that the sun is cooling. Reines' explanation...
Such scenes open a little trap door at the base of the brain. From that ancient root cellar they summon up dark, flapping fantasies of revenge. During the six-month imprisonment of their hostages, Americans have on the whole reacted with a surprising forbearance toward the Iranians. But beneath the surface they have marinated in an odd, atavistic cross-cultural rage. Their anger has been ripened by the long spectacle of their nation's ineffectuality and the humiliation of the failed rescue raid, by the nightly TV pageant of Iranian mobs pumping their fists in the air and screaming...
...rouse the vast, annoyed center from its torpor. This is actually what happened in the Harberger case. But it has its disadvantages: the confusion about academic freedom that it produces, the unavoidability of enthroning lackluster figures who offend nobody, and, above all, the failure to deal with the root problem of politics secluded against opportunities for conflict or accountability. This situation is not just imprudent, it is unjust. It deprives those who oppose HIID's field programs of any effective form of representation, agitation, or resistance, while lending these programs the name of the University to which we all belong...