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...beam and colored dyes to analyze rapidly the structure of DNA molecules. And even while major astronomical discoveries are still being made with Caltech's 200-in. Hale Telescope, the school has joined with the University of California in building on Hawaii's Mauna Kea a 394-in. optical scope, the world's biggest, which will enable astronomers to see 12 billion light-years into space...
Just another morning at the Free Lance-Star, which has been serving Fredericksburg and its surrounding counties for more than 100 years. One of America's nearly 1,700 daily newspapers, the Star (circ. 34,464) is not exactly the nation's best known. Yet within the scope of its own ambitions, % the Star embodies what is sturdy and special about American journalism. Owned by the Rowe family, the paper is adamantly independent of any power outside the newsroom. Though the paper carries foreign and national news, its true value lies in its coverage of the local scene, from city...
...required to disclose, put it in a press release . . . Most journalists find it hard to take seriously what you give them willingly." If your boss appears on 60 Minutes, Schmertz says, he should be as wary of "Harry Reasonable" as of "Mike Ambush." He suggests that the scope of the interview--including what documents the boss may be confronted with --should be talked out in advance. "When a TV journalist wants to interview me," Schmertz writes, "I generally assume the story he's working on is hostile to me or my company, or else he wants...
...reduced the scope of its prepublication review to cases in which scholars have access to classified information...
...Saturday radio address on the issue, the President declared, "America today stands poised to lift off into a new age of opportunity, powered by one of the most exciting economic changes | of my lifetime. Passed by an overwhelming 20-0 bipartisan vote, this proposal is really radical in scope...