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...soccer ball. The improbably spherical molecules were dubbed buckminsterfulleren es, or simply buckyballs, because they resemble the geodesic domes designed by inventor Buckminster Fuller. Researchers knew that some sort of 60-atom carbon molecule existed, but they had trouble producing enough of the stuff to study its properties or confirm its structure...
...carbon atoms, and 2) they had no "edges," as chemists call the unpaired electrons that cause atoms to form chemical bonds with one another. Smalley and Kroto theorized that the molecule with no edges must have the shape of a soccer ball, but they were unable to confirm the idea...
Boston University spokesperson Kevin Carleton would neither confirm nor deny that Shevardnadze will deliver the commencement speech. He said the university would announce its speaker on Monday...
...extend the Nazi analogy which Bush so exulted in: America has freed Czechoslovakia only to leave Hitler to exterminate the German Jews. We no longer hear about the Nasser-Hitler-Nebuchadnezzar who kills his own people; recently the U.S. "refused to confirm" reports that Hussein was slaughtering Kurds. Apparently, he's not so bad after...
...believe that the new map could point the way to valuable mineral discoveries. If the theory proves correct, silver, copper and zinc (all found in eastern Australia) should also turn up in northwestern Canada. But scientists caution that before anybody rushes out with a prospector's pick, research must confirm that the rocks in the Western U.S. are really related to those in eastern Antarctica. Dalziel estimates that this comparison should take no more than six months -- a short wait to clear up a mystery that has been around for half a billion years...