his triumph in the Iowa caucuses that kicked off the 1976 campaign, began wooing the delegates in earnest. Other candidates, notably Gary Hart and John Glenn, followed suit. The major news media joined in, running daily stories on what had become a Massachusetts horse race.
April 9, 400 reporters and back-up personnel were on hand in Springfield, Mass., including teams from the Big Three TV networks, Time and Newsweek, and every major daily in the country. To its credit, Linsky says, the New York...
the cloisters; many women were attracted the independence and intellectual life not available elsewhere.
Today, more than 200 Roman Catholic cloistered convents in the United States house 3,800 "contemplative" nuns. While their "active" sisters (some 120,000 strong) teach, heal, and do missionary work, says Lieblich, these secluded women seek solitude "to witness the primacy of prayer in the Church, to serve as a reminder of the contemplative di- mension in all lives, and...
reports, "and, eventually, with a cosmic love story . . .with tragic episodes and a happy ending." The mystics also broke down the traditional Judaic separation of mat- ter and spirit, man and transcendent God. For example, says Maccoby, a 16th-century Palestinian Jew named Isaac Luria argued, "In order to create the world, God had had to exile part of Himself from Himself; and this creative withdrawal (tzimtzum)or exile was what was being re-enacted on earth Israel."
The mystics...
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Trauma claims most of its victims quickly. Half are "dead on arrival" at a hospital, casualties of highway accidents, homicide, and suicide. The most promising remedies are preventive and nonmedical: handgun control, stiffer penalties for drunk driving, laws requiring motorcy- clists to wear helmets.
Another 30 percent of trauma deaths occur between one and two hours after injury. Here, the critical factor is how fast the victim reaches surgery....
their teammates in the outfield. Major league scouts track the careers of 3,000 U.S. minor league players printout. Such traditional scouting reports as "He's got an arm that can throw a lamb- chop past a wolf" may no longer suffice.
But baseball romantics need not despair, writes Weissman. Discus- sions of America's favorite pastime have always been punctuated by statistics and probabilities-batting averages, earned run averages, strikeout percentages. Now fans will just have more numbers...
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A Challenge to Lowman, Jr., in The Sciences (July-Aug.
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The theory of "continental drift" has settled comfortably into the minds of most geologists. But Lowman, a National Aeronautics and Space Administration geologist, believes that while portions of the Earth's crust move, whole continents do not.
Geologist Alfred Wegener first propounded continental drift in 1912. He argued that the seven continents began as...
the Atlantic Ocean are the strongest evidence for continental drift. Yet Lowman points out that when the east coast of North and South America is fitted together with the west coast of Eurasia and Africa, there is no room for a large chunk of southern Mexico. Similarly, the Arctic Ocean coastlines of Canada and the Soviet Union should mesh, but do not. And if all the continents have been moving away from one another, the Earth should have ex- panded over the last few hundred million years. In fact,...
reprocessing it.
Nobody is even sure how long wastes must be stored before they are safe, notes Zurer, a Chemical & Engineering News reporter. The U.S. En- vironmental Protection Agency says 10,000 years; the National Acad- emy of Sciences' estimate is 20,000 years. Until that question is settled, scientists cannot accurately judge the merits of various underground sites: The possibility of earthquakes or volcanic activity, the likelihood of groundwater contamination, and the characteristics...
up to one foot from Cape Cod to Nova Scotia.
Small-scale tidal generators of one to 100 megawatts, Fay contends, could do the same job for about the same cost per megawatt. The idea is already catching on. In Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, an 18-megawatt plant is nearing completion; Maine's Passamaquoddy Indians have in hand a preliminary plan for a 12-megawatt project that would cost $3-4 million per megawatt-roughly the same as a nuclear plant.
The technology of tide-generated electricity is...
machine three or four times every day, may never set foot in a pasture.
The milk, Chasan says, "probably won't see the light of day until you pour it into a glass." From the cow, it travels through tubes to a refrig- erated storage tank and then is trucked to a processing plant. There, it is pasteurized heat to kill bacteria. It is homogenized (to keep the cream from separating) by being forced at high pressure through steel mesh that breaks fat globules into tiny particles.
Since 1960,...