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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...powerful new tools, biologists at the University of Chicago have gently sliced through a red blood cell to peer at individual protein molecules clinging to its inner membrane. At the California Institute of Technology, chemists have watched in wonder as a hydrogen atom romances an oxygen away from a carbon dioxide molecule. And at Stanford University, physicist Steven Chu has mastered techniques for levitating millions of sodium atoms inside a stainless-steel canister and releasing them all at once in luminescent fountains. Of late, Chu and his colleagues have amused themselves by stretching a double-stranded DNA molecule as taut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Adventures In Lilliput | 12/30/1991 | See Source »

...murder hundreds of thousands of Jews as a Nazi death-camp guard known as Ivan the Terrible. There is considerable evidence that Buchanan may be right that Demjanjuk could not have been the mass murderer of Treblinka. But Buchanan has also claimed that diesel engines do not emit enough carbon monoxide to kill anybody, much less 850,000 people at Treblinka; that the U.S. should not have apologized to France for protecting Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie; and that Arthur Rudolph, the ex-Nazi rocket scientist forced to leave the U.S. after the Justice Department accused him of brutalizing slave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Loose Buchanan | 12/23/1991 | See Source »

...carbon dioxide increase will affect our children and our grandchildren," he said. "We need to do something about...

Author: By Robert C. Kwong, | Title: Scientists Say CO2 Will Alter Ecosystem | 12/7/1991 | See Source »

Fajer suggested that society should quickly act to alleviate the alarming rise in carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere...

Author: By Robert C. Kwong, | Title: Scientists Say CO2 Will Alter Ecosystem | 12/7/1991 | See Source »

...need to practice energy efficiency and use alternative sources," he said. "We have to do research on energy sources that don't produce carbon dioxide...

Author: By Robert C. Kwong, | Title: Scientists Say CO2 Will Alter Ecosystem | 12/7/1991 | See Source »

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