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...AIDS deaths, including that of Jon Sims, 36, the charismatic founder of the Gay Freedom Day Marching Band & Twirling Corps. Theater Rhinoceros has lost seven actors, directors and playwrights since 1984. Of the six actors in the company's production that year of C.D. Arnold's King of the Crystal Palace, four have died and one now has AIDS. "A nurse in my latest play says, 'I'm sick of all this sickness,' " Arnold notes. "Sometimes I just want to go see 18 Fred Astaire movies in a row and just forget about...
...enjoys the support of its people and respects its rights." That was at least an endorsement for constitutional reform, if not necessarily on the opposition's terms. On the matter of martial law, which the government has hinted it might invoke, Sigur was unequivocal. "Our position on that is crystal clear," he said. "We oppose martial law, and would hate to see anything like that happen." Back in Washington, Sigur briefed President Reagan on his findings Friday afternoon and, at a later press conference, declared that the U.S. felt "this is no time for intransigence" on the part...
Alongside the frozen-fruit desserts at the supermarket is another innovation: frozen diet-drink bars. The new products got a boost seven months ago from a Food and Drug Administration ruling that allows manufacturers to use Nutrasweet low-calorie sweetener in frozen desserts. As a result, General Foods' Crystal Light frozen diet-drink bar, which contains 14 calories and comes in eight flavors, including pink lemonade, could be a strong seller this summer at $1.89 for a package...
...more. IBM scientists announced last week that a crystal about the size of a quarter but only one-hundredth the thickness of a human hair has handled more than 100,000 amps. Other obstacles remain, including the difficulty of molding the new material. But, says IBM's Praveen Chaudhari, "if you told me two weeks ago that we would have high-temperature superconductors that carry high currents, I would have said you were dreaming. Now if someone told me we will have useful devices made of this material next month, I wouldn't call him a dreamer. That...
...University of Illinois, Physicist Donald Ginsberg raced out to buy an air mattress and an alarm clock, anticipating a spate of all-nighters. At IBM's Almaden Research Center in San Jose, scientists successfully duplicated the compound, analyzed its crystal structure and passed the information on to the company's labs in Yorktown Heights, N.Y., where their colleagues were able to make thin films of the substance literally overnight. At the University of California, Berkeley, a group that included Theoretical Physicist Marvin Cohen, who had been among those predicting superconductivity in the oxides two decades ago, reproduced...