Word: edwardes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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EXECUTIVE EDITORS: Edward L. Jamieson, Ronald Kriss...
Physicist Edward Teller has a reputation for thinking big: during World War II, as other Manhattan Project scientists were racing to build the first atom bomb, the Hungarian-born Teller was already working on the hydrogen bomb. While the H-bomb was both a technological tour de force and a hellishly effective weapon, however, one of Teller's more recent enthusiasms -- the X- ray laser -- could turn out to be an expensive dud. That possibility has ignited a fire storm of accusations that has set off a federal investigation into recent goings-on at the University of California's Lawrence...
Woodruff claims he confronted Lab Director Batzel several times, asking him to refute the claims made by Teller and Wood. Batzel allegedly refused. According to Woodruff, Batzel explained by saying "No one listens to Edward and Lowell." In fact, says Woodruff, at that time "Teller was the only guy in the lab who could go and see the President." Because of Teller's reputation for hyperbole, concedes Democratic Representative from California George Brown Jr., an SDI opponent and the member of the House intelligence committee who initiated a General Accounting Office probe, "Those in Congress and the scientific community tend...
...focused on the bacterial strains that cause strep throat. They isolated bacteria whose presence coincided with the renewed outbreaks of rheumatic fever. The microbes proved to be mucoid strep, a form that was prevalent more than 20 years ago. "It seemed that this may be an important clue," says Edward Kaplan, professor of pediatrics at the University of Minnesota Medical School. "We hadn't had much rheumatic fever, then we get these mucoid strains. Maybe they were responsible." There was a problem, however: the mucoid strains also showed up where there was no rheumatic fever...
STAFF WRITERS: Gordon Bock, Janice Castro, Howard G. Chua- Eoan, Edward W. Desmond, Philip Elmer- DeWitt, Guy D. Garcia, Nancy R. Gibbs, Richard Lacayo, Jacob V. Lamar Jr., Michael D. Lemonick, Barbara Rudolph, Michael S. Serrill, Jill Smolowe, Wayne Svoboda, Susan Tifft, Amy Wilentz, Laurence Zuckerman...