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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Stefania Follini could be forgiven for losing track of time. On Jan. 13 the 27-year-old Italian interior designer descended into a cave near Carlsbad, N. Mex., where she was to live for more than four months as part of an experiment aimed at examining how the stresses of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: The Times of Your Life | 6/5/1989 | See Source »

In the years since Warsaw Pact tanks brought an end to Dubcek's brief experiment with liberalization, the former Communist Party leader, now 67, has been living humbly in Bratislava, working as a minor forestry official until his retirement in 1982, when he turned his attention to gardening. During the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Czechoslovakia A Historic Encounter | 5/29/1989 | See Source »

The spring meeting of the American Physical Society is normally a cool scientific congregation, but last week's gathering of 1,500 physicists in Baltimore was more like an unusually hot celebrity roast. This elite clan convened a special panel to comment on the instant fame of Stanley Pons and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Putting The Heat on Cold Fusion | 5/15/1989 | See Source »

...Baltimore the physicists proclaimed their answer: no way. After weeks of thorough experimentation, researchers from numerous prestigious institutions, including M.I.T., Caltech, Yale and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, reported that they had found no evidence of "cold" fusion. The scientists seemed incensed that they had wasted their time trying to replicate an error-filled experiment and chided the University of Utah for requesting a $25 million federal grant based on sloppy research. Said Caltech physicist Steven Koonin: "We are suffering from the incompetence and perhaps the delusions of Professors Pons and Fleischmann." When the nine members of the cold-fusion review...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Putting The Heat on Cold Fusion | 5/15/1989 | See Source »

Researchers around the world dropped everything when they heard the startling announcement that the nuclear process at the heart of both the sun and the H- bomb could be duplicated in a test tube. But after more than a month of trying to reproduce the original experiment, most laboratories have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page Vol. 133 No. 19 MAY 8, 1989 | 5/8/1989 | See Source »

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