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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Carlo Rubbia, public attention is becoming old hat. Rubbia, professor of Physics, smashes atoms--a particularly fruitful line of work of late--and he has been doing ground-breaking experimentation that scientists hope will confirm much recent theoretical thinking about the forces of nature...

Author: By Michael J. Abramowitz, | Title: While You Were Out | 9/13/1984 | See Source »

...Carlo Rubbia, public attention is becoming old hat. Rubbia, professor of Physics, smashes atoms--a particularly fruitful line of work of late--and he has been doing ground-breaking experimentation that scientists hope will confirm much recent theoretical thinking about the forces of nature...

Author: By Michael J. Abramowitz, | Title: While You Were Out | 9/10/1984 | See Source »

Once extracted, the follicular fluid is rushed to an adjoining laboratory and examined under a microscope to confirm that it contains an egg (the ovum measures only four-thousandths of an inch across). The ova are carefully washed, placed in petri dishes containing a solution of nutrients and then deposited in an incubator for four to eight hours. The husband, meanwhile, has produced a sperm sample. It is hardly a romantic moment, recalls Cleveland Businessman Popela, who made four trips to Cambridgeshire with his wife, each time without success. "You have to take the jar and walk past a group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Origins of Life | 9/10/1984 | See Source »

Sandinista leaders appeared to confirm that view. Following the latest round of discreetly private meetings between the two sides in the Mexican resort town of Manzanillo, Sergio Ramirez Mercado, a member of Nicaragua's governing junta and the Sandinista candidate for Vice President in national elections set for Nov. 4, declared, "For the first time, we're talking with the U.S. and not just listening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diplomacy: The Secret off Manzanillo | 9/3/1984 | See Source »

...beginning, Mubarak implied that either Libya or Iran might be responsible. He later added that he hoped it was not Iran. "I think the Libyans were involved," he told reporters early last week. "But until now we are waiting to find one of the mines to confirm our suspicions." Like his predecessor, the late Anwar Sadat, Mubarak has long been at odds with Gaddafi. Sadat once described the Libyan leader as "a vicious criminal, 100% sick and possessed of the demon." Mubarak's style is to be more restrained in his criticism of fellow Arab rulers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism: Scouring the Red Sea Floor | 8/27/1984 | See Source »

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