Word: april
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Evening News that night with a fusion report, gushing about "what may be a tremendous scientific advance." Only a week later, physicist Steven Jones of Brigham Young University announced that he too had been producing cold fusion independently, generating neutrons but not heat. On April 1, two Hungarian scientists said that they had produced neutrons as well. Next Texas A&M scientists showed off an experiment on April 10 that they said had confirmed the heat readings recorded previously by Pons and Fleischmann. Fusion fever was rising now. Georgia Tech said on the same day that its jean-clad researchers...
...night of April 31, protesters deprived the Undergraduate Council and the undergraduate student body of the right to freely speak. And I am angry, angry not because the vote that night was not as I wished or that the protesters were not on my side, but precisely because this fundamental violation occurred...
Students at the exclusive women's liberal arts college staged a protest rally and marched on the home of college President Mary Maples Dunn last week after a Black student reported receiving an anonymous racist note on April...
...NCAA Men's Swimming and Diving Championships, held March 29-April 1 in Indianapolis, was finally aired by ESPN last weekend, and Berkoff's three swims were featured prominently, including both his American Record performance in the 100 backstroke and the 200 medley relay, in which Berkoff, Jon Manson, Greg Tull and Kaplan placed fifth and earned All-American standing...
Ominously, astronomers say 1989FC will be back. Like the earth, the asteroid orbits the sun, but it takes about 380 days to do so, instead of 365. When the asteroid passes by again next April, it will probably be at a safer distance from the earth. The next time earthlings need to worry, says astronomer Brian Marsden of the Harvard-Smithsonian Observatory, who calculated the orbit based on Holt's observations, is 2015. "If our figures are correct," he says, "the asteroid will have made 25 orbits to earth's 26, and we will meet again...