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Even though it came from a small company competing against the giants of the field, there was nothing modest about the announcement made last week by KMS Industries Inc. of Ann Arbor, Mich. The firm claimed that its scientists had briefly sustained a laser-generated fusion reaction and called its work a "definitive step" toward taming thermonuclear fusion-the same process that produces the explosive power of the hydrogen bomb and the vast heat and radiation...
...initial step." But at week's end doubt was growing among some nuclear scientists that the laboratory had done anything more than Soviet and U.S. researchers had previously announced. In fact, it seemed quite possible that true thermonuclear fusion had not really occurred at all during the Ann Arbor experiments...
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...women? Surprisingly, a strong candidate is the professional woman who hires a maid to care for her household while she is out building a career. So concluded Doris B. McLaughlin, a labor expert at the University of Michigan, who surveyed domestics working for 50 professional women in Ann Arbor and found that the employers were apt to deny their household help benefits they themselves take for granted. Less than 5% of the employers provide paid holidays and a scant 11% grant paid sick leave. Regular, automatic raises are given by only 17% of the employers and only...