Word: conventioners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The defining event for these radio activists was the battle early this year over the proposed congressional pay raise. Inspired by outraged callers, a number of talk hosts initiated letter-writing and phone-in campaigns, and kept in touch with each other to exchange information and plot tactics. The radio...
Data from the "cold fusion" experiment performed by University of Utah researchers in March have inconsistencies which raise questions about the validity of the entire experiment, physicists said yesterday at a national convention of the American Physical Society in Baltimore.
Another MIT researcher, Stanley Luckhardt, told the convention last night that his team has not produced the same amount of heat that Pons and Fleischmann generated in their experiment, but said they are not giving up.
Other physicists at the convention supported Petrasso's report. Nathan Lewis, a chemist at the California Institute of Technology, said Monday that his duplications of the original experiment showed no evidence at all of nuclear reactions, even when the parameters of the experiment were changed.
Unlike previous biographies, Citizen Welles gets to the bottom -- or should one say, false bottom -- of the man. At one level the book projects an old- world Promethean hero thundering against authority and convention. But conveyed with equal weight is an impresario of the self in the American maverick tradition...