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...Physicist John Wheeler, 70, the distinguished nuclear-fission expert who came to Austin in 1976 after 38 years at Princeton, and Marshall Rosenbluth, 55, a leading plasma physicist. Rosenbluth was lured away from Princeton when U.T. pledged a cool $5 million for five years to establish an institute for fusion studies...
...Fusion Energy Foundation (FEF) decided to start the drive after President Reagan failed to rescind the "Global 2000" report, made part of this country's foreign policy under former President Jimmy Carter, Michael Gelber, a member of the group, said yesterday...
...dialogue often inane. When the music swelled, and Fred took Ginger by the hand, and she leaned into his body, and the dance began, a more beautiful story was told: of the emotions only motion can convey, of two people's need for transcendence, of the perfect fusion of passion and technique into a delicate, sensual mating dance...
Hsieh said yesterday that as an immediate solution to the energy shortage, he supports the use of coal and nuclear fission--the process employed in most nuclear power plants around the world--while in the long run he favors the development of nuclear fusion, which would drastically reduce the amount of waste generated by nuclear plants...
...should use fission and coal to lessen our dependence on imported oil, and at the same time, we should try and develop fusion energy as a future energy source," said Hsieh, who received the scholarship in July...