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The first known encounter with a buckyball was recorded in 1985 by Richard Smalley, a chemical physicist at Rice University, and Harold Kroto, a British chemist from the University of Sussex who was visiting Smalley's lab. The two scientists were studying what would happen if they heated carbon vapor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Balls of Carbon | 5/6/1991 | See Source »

There's a special flavor to music heard live in clubs: more relaxed than on records -- often fiercer too, with inhibiting mikes out of the performers' way. The first releases from Night Records, a new Virgin Records label specializing in live performances, catch four jazz stylists (Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Les...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Apr. 29, 1991 | 4/29/1991 | See Source »

The rambling dialogue sometimes frustrates the reader, but the abrupt shifts in topics successfully demonstrate the emotional distance between the two women. At one point, Molly describes a friend's dress that is "a layered black chiffon with tiny spaghetti straps and no back to it whatsoever." Lily eagerly seizes...

Author: By Carol J. Margolis, | Title: A Tale of Two Ears | 4/25/1991 | See Source »

Second, Bush would encounter some serious problems using international law to legitimate American intervention in a civil war. You say that Bush does not respect international law in the first place because Allied forces occupied 15 percent of Iraq. Perhaps you would have preferred a straight-forward invasion of Kuwait...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bush Has No Legal Basis to Intervene for Kurds | 4/24/1991 | See Source »

Yet Kelley wrongly implies Nancy Reagan had a major hand in shaping foreign policy. In one encounter described in the book, President Reagan's aides showed him an agenda for his Geneva summit with Mikhail Gorbachev in 1985. The President asked whether the agenda had been shown to Nancy yet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The First Lady And the Slasher | 4/22/1991 | See Source »

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