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...think fusion occurred," said embarrassed team leader James Mahaffey. There was worse news to come. The collaboration between Brookhaven National Laboratory and Yale, using an array of the most sophisticated equipment available, concluded its tests of cold fusion and found nothing. No other national lab had done any better. And on April 27, the British journal Nature, to which Pons and Fleischmann had submitted their paper, then withdrawn it when asked to give more information, published an editorial on fusion fever. Verdict: it had been fun, but Pons and Fleischmann had been sloppy. Cold fusion, editor John Maddox bet, would...
...there are 15,000 Just Say No clubs in the U.S. Ivy Cohen, executive director of Just Say No International, says the foundation hopes the clothes will generate new interest in the clubs. Says she: "We want to foster a whole antidrug attitude in kids. And the sooner the better...
...been so evident in earlier demonstrations. Thousands of workers streamed from their offices and factories into the spring sunshine to watch and cheer. Food vendors handed out free drinks and popsicles. Those who did not join in the march climbed atop buildings, billboards and subway entrances for a better view. At one intersection workers broke through a line of 200 police to clear a path for the procession...
...Congress had better wait a while before it starts pouring taxpayers' & money into Utah's test tubes. Even as Pons and Fleischmann stirred excitement on Capitol Hill, evidence was mounting that their form of fusion is probably an illusion. More and more scientists were openly scoffing at the chemists' claim that they had caused deuterium ions, which are commonly found in seawater, to fuse to form helium, liberating large amounts of heat. Physicists have never been able to achieve such a sustained reaction, even briefly, without subjecting deuterium to the kind of extreme temperature and pressure found inside...
...ignite a number of long- smoldering resentments. For one thing, fusion and other subatomic phenomena that are usually studied with giant nuclear reactors and particle accelerators have long been the private domain of physicists. Chemists, on the other hand, were more likely to be studying how to make a better laundry detergent, or so physicists seem to think. It is no surprise, then, that the harshest critics of Pons and his dime-store equipment have been physicists. Retorts Pons: "Chemists are supposed to discover new chemicals. The physicists don't like it when they discover new physicals." In fact, many...