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...test, Silvera puts palladium in a deuterium solution, which he then squeezes together with a high-pressure apparatus. He said his goal is to make the deuterium nuclei fuse together at a temperature of 120 degrees Kelvin, which corresponds to 245 degrees below zero Fahrenheit...
...sparks thrown off by the widely divergent policies have ignited a sputtering fuse in the region that could lead to a dangerous explosion. The satellites, no longer forced to operate under the delusion that Communism works, have been given a historic chance to pursue, within undefined limits, their own reform policies. But if Gorbachev is willing to countenance some degree of free play country by country, he seems unlikely to permit any to opt out of the Warsaw Pact...
...summit between Deng and Gorbachev in Beijing this spring, perhaps in May. The easing of tensions is certain to produce diplomatic fallout of global importance. It could lead to a new era of stability in Asia, where the 4,500-mile Chinese- Soviet border sometimes threatened to become the fuse for war, perhaps even nuclear conflict. The U.S. might be losing its "China card," but the world will gain a new style of superpower diplomacy: no more will China be the stick for the U.S. to beat the Soviets, or for the Soviets to menace Washington. Of course, there...
...most sensational charge in J.A.M.A. is contained in a letter from researchers who claim that Premier, a cigarette-size cylinder that heats tobacco rather than burns it, can be used to smoke crack, the cocaine derivative. That one has lit a fuse at RJR. Last week research head G. Robert Di Marco attacked the accusations in J.A.M.A. as "distortions to further the political goals of its parent organization...
...Green Fuse's decision to play predominantly original music comes at a time when many Harvard bands are only beginning to move away from cover tunes to play their own material. "There's a trend now where people are starting to work on their own tunes, which I think is cool," Bush says...