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...question so vital settled so decisively. The gulf debate is the closest politics gets to a controlled experiment. Hypotheses were advanced, and 43 days later the results were in. In the scientific world, one side admits error at this point. Those who believe in Lamarck or cold fusion either recant or retire...
Baltimore and his former colleagues at M.I.T. owe O'Toole an apology, if not a job. And like other scientists currently facing critical scrutiny -- including AIDS researcher Robert Gallo and cold-fusion gurus Martin Fleischmann and B. Stanley Pons -- they owe it to themselves to take a close look at their thin-skinned response. Making mistakes is part of science. But blindly denying the possibility of error goes against the heart of the scientific method. Baltimore seems to have worried more about a colleague's reputation than about the truth of a junior researcher's complaint...
...fusion-rock group Living Colour rejected an Undergraduate Council bid for a campus performance this spring, making it unlikely that the council will sponsor a second-semester concert...
...about sex -- or even, Bertolucci says, "the impossibility of love. It is about the impossibility of being happy within love. Kit and Port don't realize that the modern couple is an endangered species. Couples are so attacked by the outside world that they create a kind of fusion, a symbiosis. And that takes them, eventually, to a crisis. They look at each other...
Pons' disappearance comes just as the state of Utah is trying to decide whether it should continue to support a cold-fusion laboratory on which the state has already spent $5 million. And it hardly helps that there are reports that Pons' phone has been disconnected and his Salt Lake City home put up for sale. But Pons is not totally out of touch: last week he requested a one-year sabbatical by having his lawyer send a fax to the university. If he ever surfaces, he will no doubt be able to explain what he has been doing...