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...enthusiasm among the members of TIME's headquarters team was confirmed by reports from Washington Correspondent Dick Thompson, who covered a NASA meeting on 1987A at the Goddard Space Flight Center, and Rio de Janeiro Bureau Chief Gavin Scott, who flew to northern Chile, where astrophysicists first sighted 1987A. Chicago Correspondent Madeleine Nash, who specializes in science, canvassed supernova experts from Cambridge, Mass., to Santa Cruz, Calif. Says Nash: "I had heard of supernovas, of course, but was only dimly aware of their importance." After a few interviews, she became an aficionado. "The energy released by a supernova makes Mount...
Last week Illinois State Treasurer Jerry Cosentino closed state accounts at the American National Bank of Chicago, in which about $485 million is deposited annually. The bank had refused to lower its credit-card interest rate from 19.8% to about 14%. American National was the second Illinois bank to be hit with such a sanction by Cosentino...
Another report in last week's Nature, while not dealing with 1987A, provided further insight into Type II supernovas. A group led by Chemist Edward Anders and Physicist Roy Lewis, both of the University of Chicago, revealed that they had discovered an abundance of submicroscopic diamonds in a meteorite that fell in Mexico in 1969. While the impact of a meteor slamming into the earth creates enough pressure to crystallize carbon into diamonds, the tiny samples found by the Chicago team apparently resulted from an ancient supernova. The evidence: they contained atomic forms of the gas xenon different from...
...burst recorded at Mont Blanc some 4 1/2 hours earlier. They will examine the data further this week at a meeting in Wisconsin. In any case, Bahcall is ecstatic. "I think this is almost surrealistic," he says. "It's hard to believe I'm actually awake." Agrees University of Chicago Astronomer W. David Arnett: "There have been smoking guns, but we've never seen the act committed before...
...symptom boards contain more than 4,000 red dots, each denoting an alleged plaintiff ailment. Dr. Bertram W. Carnow, director of environmental medicine at the University of Illinois, spent 76 days on the witness stand -- at a fee of $3,000 a day to his Chicago health-consultancy firm -- putting the dots up as expert witness for the plaintiffs, contending the ills the dots represent could be dioxin-related. Monsanto's rebuttal expert, Dr. James R. Webster, chief of medicine at Chicago's Northwestern Memorial Hospital, is now in the process of disputing Dr. Carnow, dot by dot, testifying that...