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Later, in April, scientists at Stanford and IBM announced that they had made thin films of the new substances, important for computer applications. The spotlight then shifted to IBM Researchers Robert Laibowitz and Roger Koch, who reported that they had made their own thin film into a working gadget called a SQUID (for superconducting quantum interference device). Such tools are already used in low-temperature versions to measure extremely faint magnetic fields. They are also employed by physicists in the search for elusive gravity waves and magnetic monopoles, predicted by some theories but not yet observed. Medical researchers use SQUIDs...
...good news for New Yorkers, Mayor Edward Koch said last week: taxes were being reduced, and the police department was being enlarged. "But the single thing people will care about," he added, "is that the pandas have come to town." How right he was. Last Thursday morning, as a gong was sounded and a comely female named Yong Yong waddled into her enclosure at the Bronx Zoo, New York City was gripped with that well-known but incurable fever: pandamania...
After raising some $8 million and mapping out a detailed plan for low-cost construction, Nehemiah's sponsors went looking for additional help from city hall. When New York Mayor Ed Koch pleaded poverty, the group won the day by pointing to the support that the project had already garnered. Recalls Roman Catholic Bishop Francis Mugavero: "I said to the mayor, 'I would suggest that you steal the money, and I will absolve you.' " Laughing, Koch finally responded...
Myerson's troubles began last month, when she invoked her Fifth Amendment right to remain silent during an appearance before the grand jury. She informed Koch of the incident only after a local television newscast reported it two weeks ago. Although Myerson explained that she had taken the Fifth on the advice of her lawyer, the mayor was distressed. Just six months earlier, he had threatened to fire city officials who failed to cooperate in such probes. Said Koch: "I want to find out the reasons for her appearance at the grand jury and whether her taking the Fifth Amendment...
...state unequivocally that I never in any way helped Mr. Capasso to get any city contract." But the mayor, who has been stung by criminal prosecutions against more than half a dozen city officials, was hedging his bets on whether his erstwhile ally would reclaim her position. Said Koch: "I am withholding my judgment as it relates to her situation." Despite Myerson's determination, the former beauty queen may find herself ruefully pondering Shakespeare's famous lines about the head that wears a crown...