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Young Tim went to Regis, a Jesuit high school that admitted only the brightest kids. As he remembers it, "One night in June they called a meeting of all new boys and their parents. The principal got up and said, 'Note that I start at 8 o'clock, not one minute before or one minute after. At Regis we do things on time.' Well, my father said, loud enough to be heard ten rows in front and ten rows behind, 'Aw, s---!' I thought, that's it! I'm finished. They'll have my ass out of here...
...parents gave him a little Dodge with a rumble seat for his high school graduation in 1939, and when he announced that he intended to start training as a Jesuit, they hung on to the vehicle for a while, thinking that their quick-tempered son might not last. He does not see his vocation on a grand scale of spiritual drama. "I truly think it takes more to keep a good marriage going over a number of years than it does to be a priest," he says. The order itself was the natural choice for a young...
Which does not mean the millennium has arrived. For one thing, an intricate verification procedure remains to be completed. Also, START in some ways seems designed to curb the arms race of the 1980s rather than the one that might occur in the '90s; it makes its greatest reductions in the numbers of ballistic-missile warheads, which have been gradually losing prominence to the newer cruise missiles as both sides modernize their nuclear arsenals. Consequently, the cut in total warheads deployed will not be 50%, as often stated, but 30% to 35%. Under some circumstances, there could be no overall...
...Einstein's theory. A new facility called the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), planned for completion in 1995, could provide the first direct evidence that gravity waves exist. The $192 million project recently got a thumbs-up from President George Bush, who asked Congress for $47 million in start-up funding as part of his proposed 1991 budget. The search for a suitable site has already begun...
Last year's second-place finish diminished his genius reputation, and this year's slow start and constant press scrutiny could cost...