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Thus late last month began a saga that continues to engage the attention of the scientific world as rarely before. The announcement by the two chemists, B. Stanley Pons of the University of Utah and Martin Fleischmann of the University of Southampton in England, while greeted with skepticism, also triggered a kind of free-for-all as researchers rushed to re-create the controversial experiment...
There were grounds for skepticism. While well respected in their fields, Pons and Fleischmann were far from the mainstream of fusion research. In addition, they had released their results in a manner that tended to cast suspicion on their claims, staging a press conference in Utah complete with television cameras. For several days researchers around the world were dependent on TV and newspapers for scraps of information about what could conceivably be the biggest science story of the year -- if not the decade...
Then the details of the experiment began to emerge. By an informal process known as "publication by fax," copies of a paper Pons and Fleischmann had prepared began to circulate from lab to lab. Next, one of the best-known figures in the field, physicist Steven Jones of Brigham Young University, announced that he too had achieved fusion in a jar, although, significantly, with far lower energy output. Even a pair of Hungarian scientists claimed to have carried out room-temperature fusion...
...curtain goes up on a new year of opera and symphonic performances across the U.S., is it really about to come down on a tradition that Americans have long considered the epitome of high culture? Ernest Fleischmann, the formidable executive director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, thinks so. "We must accept that the orchestra as we know it is dead," he declared last May. "It's dead because symphony concerts have become dull and predictable; musicians and audiences are suffering from repetitive routines and formula- type programming; there is an acute shortage of conductors who not only know their scores...
...over, many clients are passing loud and painful judgment on the results. Their verdict so far: bigger is not necessarily better. An unprecedented parade of coveted clients has quit the two supergroups for smaller agencies. One such advertiser is RJR Nabisco, which took away $32 million in accounts (example: Fleischmann's margarine) from Omnicom and $96 million from Saatchi & Saatchi/Ted Bates. Declared RJR Nabisco Chairman J. Tylee Wilson, speaking at an advertising convention two weeks ago in Virginia: "The wave of mergers has benefited the shareholders and managements of the agencies, but I'm the client. I'm selfish. Show...