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Norway has been playing host to the first of four UN regional conferences, and has been abuzz with greenhouse talk. But the problem of negotiating what to do about the greenhouse effect is as far from solved as ever.
In proposing a manned mission to Mars, President Bush has allowed Americans to dream again of greatness as a space-faring nation. But dream is more likely to become reality with the help of the Soviet Union.
New solutions of Einstein's equations are rarities, but the latest to appear has the particular interest of making the Big Bang less than a mathematical necessity.