Word: crystal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lilys go on and on. Down there in the front row is Lupe, the world's oldest beautician, whose face seems more left than lifted. "Lines, lines, go away," she says. "Pay a visit to Doris Day." At the back of the theater, sitting in a wheelchair, is Crystal the Terrible Tumble weed. A quadraplegic, Crystal has been crossing the country in her wheelchair, the CB-equipped Iron Duchess; when last seen, she was on her way to hang-glide off Big Sur, Calif. Swaggering down the aisle, belching and downing a beer at the same time, is Rick...
...Nice table," he murmured to the butler when he saw the fresh flowers and sparkling crystal. He decided to sit in the chair opposite the one assigned him. Calling for "a cold American beer," he issued a clearly audible apology to the California wine industry, whose Colombard had already been poured. Then for more than an hour he talked about the fellow from whose office he had just come. It may be the best portrait yet of President Jimmy Carter at work...
...team first crystallizes the molecule to be studied. The crystal is then examined by standard X-ray diffraction; the X rays that pass through the crystal and bounce off the atoms are used to make a pattern of dots that is recorded by an electronic counter. The diffraction pattern is then processed by computers to determine the relative value of each of its spots. Finally, the spots are printed on a photographic plate, which becomes a hologram of one of the crystal's planes...
...lens, which spreads it to cover the entire plate, through the plate itself and then through another lens, which acts as an optical computer and converts the spots into a coherent picture (see diagram). The result is an image showing the arrangement of atoms in one plane of the crystal. This image can be combined with images from other sections to give a three-dimensional view of the crystal's entire atomic structure. Says Stroke: "In the past, all we have been able to produce is a score. Now we can produce real music...
...symphony and show the entire structure of any molecule. But the results thus far are promising. Stroke's pilot study, involving a substance called magnesium bromide tetrahydrofuran, clearly reveals the precise arrangement of the molecule's magnesium, oxygen and carbon atoms in one plane of the crystal. It is more of the molecule than science has yet been able...