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...device tucked into a red picnic cooler. Because he performed a control experiment to rule out a conventional chemical reaction, this was the strongest confirmation yet. The next day, Francesco Scaramuzzi, a bearded physicist with the Italian National Agency for Nuclear and Alternative Energy, reported what has been dubbed "Frascati fusion," for the town near Rome where his team detected the neutron signature of cold fusion. This, plus other announcements from India and South America, was beginning to give the doubters pause. Then, on April 25, the tide turned. Georgia Tech, having hastily withdrawn its fusion results the previous week...
...Lisa Hughes 8-1--17; CindyHines 1-0--2; Valerie O'Neil 0-0--0; JacqueseGilbert 7--3-17; Robyn Frascati 0-0--0; MichelleCrosby 3-2--8; Kim Pearce 2-1--5; Sheryl Lynch1-1-4; Cindy Dilger 2-0--4 Julie Van Ewyk 1-3--5;Tamara Wilson 0-0--0. Danica Petrovic...
Except for one session in Rome, the meeting took place at the Villa Cavalletti amid the vineyards of the Frascati region twelve miles outside Rome. The bucolic setting may have helped. In any event, the anticipated confrontations never occurred. Dezza, 80, won more esteem from the Jesuit leaders than had been expected. But his very strength as a master of the Vatican bureaucracy also meant, said one participant, that his "mindset was such that it would be useless to debate." The assembled priests quietly decided that he was unable to comprehend how Jesuits out in the provinces must work...
...Milan and Florence, thousands of happy demonstrators poured into downtown piazzas. Euphoric banner-waving crowds jammed Rome's streets, blocking traffic and filling the huge Piazza Navona. In the Eternal City's working-class trattorias, flasks of Frascati white wine were broken out in celebration, while champagne corks popped merrily at Harry's Bar on the Via Veneto. Such an outpouring of emotion in Italy is usually reserved for the end of wars or the victories of national soccer teams. Last week's cheering, however, was a response to the outcome of the strangest-and perhaps...
...offensive again, he has summoned more than 80 Vatican "ambassadors" and heads of missions to Frascati in the Alban Hills near Rome. It will be the first plenary assembly of papal diplomats in Vatican history. The meeting, scheduled for early September, is expected to chart the Vatican's next moves toward better relations with Communist and non-Christian countries. Just how successful Pope Paul's past diplomatic overtures have been is underscored by the fact that the Holy See now has the right to name bishops in all Eastern European countries except Albania, and maintains diplomatic relations with...