Word: experimenters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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By then the situation was critical. Strapped into stiff re-entry suits inside the 107-cu.-ft. lander, the cosmonauts could hardly move. They had food and air for perhaps three days. A surrealistic touch was added by a bag of live fish that had been used in an experiment...
Last fall when the Supreme Court nomination of Douglas Ginsburg vanished in a puff of marijuana smoke, more than a dozen of his contemporaries, including Presidential Hopefuls Albert Gore and Bruce Babbitt, rushed forward to admit that they too had succumbed to reefer madness. Most confessions were formulaic: "I once...
Next month a U.S. team will similarly monitor a Soviet nuclear test at Semipalatinsk, U.S.S.R. The idea: to make sure that both sides can verify whether a test yields more or less than 150 kilotons. If the joint- verification experiment is successful, the U.S. and the Soviet Union could at...
The timing of the experiment was not accidental. Each summer, as millions of Europeans pile into their cars and zoom to their favorite vacation spots, thousands end up in grisly pile-ups. "Every vacation it happens the same way," says a Paris insurance clerk. "You have types who load their...
Michael Keaton plays Daryl Poynter, the very model of a white-collar slime mold: he's a thief, an accessory to murder and a meanie to his mom. He can't even admit he has a drug problem -- cocaine and alcohol -- until a tough-love therapist (Morgan Freeman), an A.A...