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Other military experts caution against drawing universal lessons from the war too quickly. Moreover, experts note that advances in weapons technology trigger the development of counter-measures that eventually neutralize the original advantages...
...Austrian Ethologist Konrad Lorenz, a couple of shadows marred the sunny days following his capture of the 1973 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (TIME, Oct. 22). First a bunch of trigger-happy hunters shot 19 of his animal subjects: graylag geese living on his Grünau observation grounds. Then came the discovery that the $4,000 Schiller prize, which Lorenz won just after the Nobel, had come from a German neo-Nazi group, who presumably had misunderstood his analysis of violence in On Aggression. Turning the prize money over to Amnesty International, an organization that keeps...
...body is fooled in space. It feels good but, some doctors suggest, does not recognize its anemia. Another suspicion is that zero G alters the way the blood flows to the internal organs. This could result, for example, in reduced stimulation of the kidneys, which produce a hormone to trigger red blood cell manufacture...
...play is set in the Potted Palms Hotel, which Alex and Randy have just inherited from Randy's Uncle Harold. There are corpses in the closets, a comic policeman who wants protection money ("nobody's going to get shot unless I pull the trigger," he reassures everyone,) and Cosmic Debris, who claims to be an old friend of Uncle Harold ("Poor old Harold," he sniffs miserably. "Sometimes I think all he ever lived for were the mangoes and the potted palms.") As in any other farce, the plot finally comes unravelled with a bang--four, in fact. Afterwards, two women...
...line. The chauvinist pitch was only his means to exploit the public temper. So he sloganeered like a mechanical mouthpiece,. or the little kid who recites what he's heard from his parents' discussions -- not because he understands the import of the phrase, but because he'd seen it trigger an excitement...