Word: cold
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...message everywhere is the same. The Soviet Union is scaling back its cold war commitments overseas in favor of a more pragmatic, diplomatic -- and potentially more successful -- drive to expand its influence abroad. The Soviets are moving in more subtle ways than of old to position themselves advantageously. The retrenchment from overt aggression, said a top adviser to President George Bush last week, discloses "a foreign policy of necessity designed to provide breathing space." But this necessity has bred a virtue: the plaudits for Moscow's policy shifts have led to an overall advance of the Gorbachev cause overseas...
...implications of cold fusion are enormous. The supply of deuterium is virtually limitless. Unlike ordinary fission reactors, a cold-fusion plant would produce very little radiation and no radioactive waste, and it wouldn't produce the chemical pollutants and greenhouse gasses created by burning coal...
...science concentrator roommate assures me that, unlike the last dramatic physics breakthrough--superconductivity--cold fusion may see commercial applications in a few years rather than a few decades. Fusion-heated homes, fusion-generated electricity and fusion-powered cars could be the wave of the future...
...drawback to the process is that it requires electrodes made from the rare metal palladium, which is commonly used as a component of dental fillings. Palladium doesn't come cheap. Before the cold fusion breakthrough, it sold for about $5 million per ton, and the price is now rising...
...Bussewitz, the most popular and longest-serving guide at Harvard's Arnold Arboretum, can show you his haunt's beauty even on a cold and drizzly...