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...scientists are attempting to apply millions of atmospheres of pressure to the hydrogen by squeezing the molecules between two microscopic diamond chips. By pushing the two chips together at a temperature of approximately-450 degrees, Silvera hopes to attain his goal...

Author: By Christopher J. Georges, | Title: Researchers Race to Form New Metal | 3/5/1984 | See Source »

...real revolution in high pressure technique," he says. "Because the area is so small, you don't need that much force." But the real bonus, he says, is that "the diamond gives a window on the experiment. We might actually be able to watch the hydrogen change into the metallic state...

Author: By Christopher J. Georges, | Title: Researchers Race to Form New Metal | 3/5/1984 | See Source »

Never, in particular, underestimate the diamond studded bacchanalia that is the Pudding show's opening night Especially if you aren't used to counting your champagne bottles by the square yard and pushing your way between velvet shoulders and clustered TV cameras just to see other people ogling Man of the Year Sean Connery. It could be considered decadent or glamor-mad, a bit peculiar--the audience's vast delight in hairy cleavages and falsetto love scenes--or, in years when the show is lousy, altogether pointless...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: Belleboys in Love | 2/23/1984 | See Source »

...Johnson (H) d. Doug Diamond...

Author: By Benjamin R. Reder, | Title: Racquetmen Pummell Quakers, 9-0 | 2/13/1984 | See Source »

...future, and they do not feel the need to say or do anything that would get them in trouble with the police. But what about an unemployed Black auto worker in Detroit, or a Chicano alien in a sweatshop in L.A.? Ask a priest in El Salvador, or a diamond miner in South Africa what they think of the freedoms that Lieber and Bumgartner enjoy, and they will not know what you are talking about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Red-baiting | 2/9/1984 | See Source »

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