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...until last fall that a team of scientists produced visible aggregations of buckyballs. At first, University of Arizona physicist Donald Huffman and his German colleague, Wolfgang Kratschmer, thought they had come up with nothing more extraordinary than a thimbleful of grimy soot. Then their microscope revealed a swarm of translucent specks that sparkled like stars in a moonless sky. "As soon as we saw these beautiful little crystals," Huffman recalls, "we knew we were looking at something no one had ever seen before...
Their shape may turn out to be a structural achievement that on the molecular level is as noteworthy as the keystone arch. "This molecule," says IBM physicist Donald Bethune, "looks like something some genius engineer sat down and designed." In essence, a buckyball forms a cage that begs to be filled. By placing different atoms inside the cage, scientists should be able to engineer materials with unique electronic, catalytic and even biomedical properties. One intriguing possibility: if they prove nontoxic, buckyballs might encapsulate radioactive atoms used in cancer therapy, serving as shields that protect normal tissue from damage...
Overshadowed by the furious debate surrounding the B-2, the ATF project was largely shielded from public scrutiny until last week, when Air Force Secretary Donald Rice announced the winner. Suddenly, after the expenditure of nearly $3.5 billion in development funds, official Washington was raising the questions that should have been asked five years ago: Who needs this jet? What is it for? And why does it cost so much? As Leon Panetta, chairman of the House Budget Committee, points out, "It is hard to justify building $100 million airplanes" in the light of the current budget deficit and increasingly...
...biggest heroes. Included in the set: Kim Philby, the notorious mole in the British intelligence service who defected to Moscow in 1963 and joined the KGB's inner circle. In jest, Senator Boren asked his Soviet host why Philby's equally famous fellow double agents, Guy Burgess and Donald MacLean, had not been given their own stamps. "That's the next series," replied Kryuchkov...
Executive Vice Presidents: Donald J. Barr, Donald M. Elliman Jr., S. Christopher Meigher III, Robert L. Miller...