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American scientists have eagerly pursued that future since last winter, when a burst of research activity rescued superconductors from relative obscurity. The excitement followed a discovery in the spring of 1986 by IBM scientists in Zurich. Their find: a metallic ceramic compound that became a superconductor at a temperature well above the previously achieved record of 23.2 Kelvin, or -418 degrees F. By year's end researchers were developing materials that became superconductors at higher and higher temperatures. At the University of Houston, a team led by Paul C.W. Chu set the currently recognized standard last February, when it produced...
...inflation 1970s. Many corporations are seeking to replace regular pay raises with annual bonus systems. These lump-sum payments, common in executive circles, expand and contract with a company's profitability. The advantage for employers is that the bonuses cost less over the long haul because they do not compound year after year, as raises do. Last October, Boeing reached an agreement with its machinists that froze basic wages while granting annual bonuses that will average about 7% of their base...
...only because, as one Greek travel agent put it, "nothing has happened this year." So a brief wave of anxiety was provoked by terrorist incidents in Rome two weeks ago, when rockets were fired at the British and U.S. embassies and a car bomb went off outside the American compound. But since little damage was done and no one was injured, vacationers took the news in stride. It will apparently take more serious trouble than that to spoil the festive return of Americans to Europe...
...snakes; puke spumes as if from a seasick sewer pipe. No problem. Miller and Michael Cristofer have simply chosen to tell the story from coarse Daryl's point of view rather than, as Updike did, from the ironic women's. This is not a movie of compound-complex sentences and nuances. But it is a damned entertaining one, with a textbook display of camerabatics -- if textbooks were comic books with a mean streak...
Despite strong anti-CFC laws in the U.S. and Canada, many countries . continued to allow the compound to be used as a propellant in aerosol products and as a cooling agent in refrigerators, air conditioners and other appliances. Finally, last week representatives of 31 nations, including Britain, West Germany and the Soviet Union, agreed that by 1992 they would cut back on their production of chlorofluorocarbons by 20%. Mostafa Tolba, executive director of the U.N. Environment Program, felt the agreement did not go far enough. He warned, "If we mess up this planet, we can't go and look...