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...other physicists -- Hans Dehmelt of the University of Washington in Seattle and Wolfgang Paul of Bonn University in West Germany -- are to split the remainder of the prize. They were honored for devising ways of "trapping" single electrons and charged atoms known as ions. Paul, 76, won fame for fashioning a vastly improved ion trap. Dehmelt, 67, who studied with Paul as an undergraduate, used such a trap to observe a single ion. Illuminated by laser beams, the imprisoned ion glowed "like a little blue star," he recalled...
What should the U.S. do? There is an instinctive longing for the bravado of 1904, when President Theodore Roosevelt was faced with the kidnaping of an American, Ion Perdicaris, by a Moroccan bandit named Ahmed Raisuli. Legend has it that Roosevelt pronounced a famous ultimatum: "Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead." (It is less well remembered that Perdicaris was freed only after the Moroccan government paid ransom.) But a poll conducted last Thursday for TIME/ CNN by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman indicates substantial public recognition that a big stick may not be the answer to an explosive and delicate situation. Among those...
Scientists theorize that conventional fusion yields one of two products: a helium nucleus consisting of two protons and one neutron and a high-energy neutron; or a radioactive form of hydrogen made up of two neutrons and a proton and a hydrogen ion...
...known and well paid, cosseted and coddled, the stars eventually become almost synonymous with the institutions that employ them. Nowhere was this more true than at the elite investment firm of First Boston, where the duo of Bruce Wasserstein and Joseph Perella created a mecca for merger-and-acquisit ion advice. Owing largely to their prestige, First Boston was the busiest takeover player on Wall Street last year, handling an estimated 174 deals. Serving as masterminds in some of the biggest corporate struggles of the decade, the two men have sparred with raiders ranging from T. Boone Pickens to Carl...
...public alarm over crime has risen, the government has responded. Minister of Justice Frederik Korthals Altes last February won overwhelming parliamentary approval for a $40 million omnibus crime bill that calls for hiring more police and creating a criminal-investigat ion arm to assist municipal detective bureaus. Meanwhile, Housing Minister Nijpels announced the construction of 3,000 jail cells to supplement the 5,000 currently...