Number 108 (Story #4), December 28, 1992 by Phillip F. Schewe and Ben Stein BILL CLINTON'S SCIENCE ADVISOR WILL BE JOHN GIBBONS , currently head of the Office of Technology Assessment. Like many recent presidential science advisors, Gibbons is a physicist by training. (The New York Times, 25 Dec. 1992.) GALILEO GALILEI WAS UNJUSTLY CONDEMNED by the Roman Catholic Church for promoting a Copernican cosmology, says Pope John Paul II. The Pontiff issued the reassessment of this famous 1633 case after a special Vatican commission finished its investigation of the matter. Mr. Galileo was unavailable for comment. (Sky & Telescope, Jan. 1993.)