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Gamma rays are the most powerful type of radiation, thought to have been created during the explosion that launched the universe and its subsequent expansion. As distant heavenly bodies continue to collapse and explode, the only signals earth may receive of this activity are in the form of gamma rays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Challenge to the Big Bang? | 4/15/1991 | See Source »

When he writes, O'Rourke retreats to a third-floor hideaway in his New Hampshire home. It's a manly place, replete with fireplace, dark wood paneling and mementos of his world travels scattered about. He shows no interest in computers, choosing instead to hammer away on an IBM electric...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Of Cows, Scuds and Scotch: P. J. O'ROURKE | 4/15/1991 | See Source »

As nuclear devices go, Galileo's generators were relatively innocuous. Thermoelectric generators are battery-like gadgets that use natural radioactive decay in their fuel cells to produce electric power. Timberwind's engines, on the other hand, are true nuclear reactors that split atoms and generate heat, using the same chain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Star Wars Does It Again | 4/15/1991 | See Source »

"I do remember standing in the Yard the first day and feeling slightly disappointed that there was none of that electric tingle that the literature promised me," Fauth says. But despite the initial disappointment, Fauth has, indeed, found a home here. He is on the Undergraduate Council as well as...

Author: By Philip M. Rubin, | Title: 35-Year-Old Sophomore Gordon Fauth Juggles Yet Another Experience: College Life | 4/13/1991 | See Source »

In 1980, Atwater discovered that Tom Turnipseed, a Democratic candidate for Congress, had received electric shock therapy while in college. Atwater allegedly planted a reporter to raise the issue at a press conference. Atwater told reporters that he would not talk to someone who had been "hooked up to jumper...

Author: By Mark N. Templeton, | Title: Good Riddance | 4/3/1991 | See Source »

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