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...detect a fugitive monopole, Cabrera used a kind of magnetic mousetrap, which was connected to a SQUID (superconducting quantum interference device). He turned a coil of niobium, a platinum-gray metallic element, into a superconductor of electricity by cooling it to within nine degrees of absolute zero (minus 460° F). Current thus moved through it without resistance, allowing the slightest twitch in the current's flow to be recorded. At 1:53 p.m. on Feb. 14, the magnetic flux in Cabrera's device jumped eight steps, exactly what was expected if a Dirac monopole passed through. Cabrera...
Cabrera and others are now rushing to build larger devices in the hope of expanding his approach. Armed with a three-coil device, Cabrera expects to record as many as 100 events in a year. Says Harvard Physicist Sheldon Glashow: "If Cabrera is right, this will be one of the most important physics discoveries in this century. It's been a long quest...
...ability to "shuttle" off this 20th century mortal coil and return, flawlessly, is a landmark achievement of the human race-a forerunner of man's travel to the stars. Initiative, expertise and creativity are alive and well in America...
...Robert Jones, 43, a Los Angeles salesman of kitchen exhaust systems. He received $8,000 last year to help finance his idea for using the hot air coming off cooking ranges rather than simply pumping it out the exhaust fan. With the money, he built a prototype "hydro-coil" that gathers the heat in radiator-type fins and recycles it to heat other rooms in the house and the water system. Gas bills dropped 15% to 20% during testing, and Jones has interested a national restaurant chain in his device...
...last week a pleasant young man with a neatly trimmed brown beard approached the twin 110-story towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan. He was wearing heavy hiking boots, and on his back was a burnt-orange pack containing a long coil of bright blue nylon rope. A curious window washer asked the stranger what he was planning to do. "I'm taking a walk," he said casually. And then he proceeded to: straight...