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...Gaddafi's solicitation is the Soviet-built Tajura Center, whose state-of-the-art research facilities were opened in 1982. According to Ann MacLachlan, European editor for McGraw-Hill Inc.'s Nucleonics Week, who has visited the Libyan facility, the Soviets have supplied a small TM4-A Tokamak Nuclear Fusion Facility, which includes a ten-megawatt research reactor and a reactor-training site. Employed at the plant are several hundred Libyans who are studying nuclear operations...
...Thompson's show, his guitar. At the risk of offending everyone in our quarter of the galaxy, I have to say it: Richard Thompson is the greatest live guitarist in music. Period. At the Berklce show, he did Clapton's blues, Van Halen's hammering. Beck's lightning fusion, and Page's power dissonance, so that all the parts flowed into each other. On "Shoot Out The Lights," he captured some low-register feedback that would have made Hendriv's month fall and mutter "Shit, that boy can play." And he never once looked at the neck of the guitar...
...raised to 100 million degrees, causing it to vaporize explosively. Just as a rocket is pushed forward by its tail exhaust, the vaporizing surface would exert a force inward, compressing the pellet to a density 20 times that of lead and forcing the nuclei to fuse. In the fusion power plant of the future, Livermore scientists say, larger pellets will be blasted, one after another, producing successive bursts of energy...
Critics of the laser fusion program contend that it is five to ten years behind magnetic containment fusion, a technique that uses powerful magnetic fields to contain the reaction. But magnetic fusion, too, still has a long way to go. It has not yet even reached the stage at which the energy produced by the machines equals the energy required to run them. Says Livermore's Emmett: "Fusion is one of the most difficult technological undertakings that man has ever engaged in, and probably one of the most important...
Only pro wrestling, as perpetrated by Vince McMahon's World Wrestling Federation, could provide such a uniquely 1980s fusion of chic and sleaze. WrestleMania's guest referee is Muhammad Ali; the guest ring announcer is Battlin' Billy Martin; the guest timekeeper, manipulating a tiny silver bell that might have come from King Farouk's dinner table, is Liberace. Pop Thrush Cyndi Lauper is "managing" Wendi Richter ("150 pounds of twisted steel and sex appeal") as she attempts to regain her W.W.F. championship belt from zaftig Leilani Kai, managed by former longtime (28 years) women's champ, the Fabulous Moolah...