Word: magnetics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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COMPLACENT, insulting lines like this abound in the script, making it difficult for us to appreciate Schroeder's solid direction of a highly competent cast. Rourke has genuine negative charisma in this film, in contrast to his vapid, one dimensional sex magnet persona in 9 1/2 Weeks. Here he's a sex symbol straight out of the Cuisinart, with his bloodstained tee shirts and battered face, and he remains likeable through the corniest moments. For all his apocalyptic late night poetry scribbling and implausible literary references, we can understand why Wanda and Tully fall in love with him, and even...
Under the pressure of a federal court desegregation order, the Kansas City school district this month opened six foreign-language magnet schools. To attract white students into predominantly black areas, the district intended to offer intensive elementary school classes in French, Spanish and German. But the plan hit a snag when the Immigration and Naturalization Service refused to approve visas for the 14 Belgian instructors hired to teach French...
...dollars that import-hungry U.S. consumers have been spending on Japanese video gear, South Korean appliances and West German autos. Those wealthy nations are eager to use this money to tap the $1.3 trillion U.S. marketplace, where immense diversity and opportunity act as both a model and a magnet for the rest of the world. In addition, foreigners are eager to gain access to the advanced fruits of American research and technology, as well as to enjoy the benefits of U.S. rates of corporate taxation, which are appreciably lower than elsewhere...
...political power. Japan's national charter renounces war. Portugal's forbids private ownership of television stations. Peru reprints its charter in the Lima telephone directory, filling ten pages of fine print. Yet beneath such diversity, each document can trace its rights and freedoms to U.S. soil. Says Joseph Magnet, a law professor at Canada's University of Ottawa: "America has been and remains the great constitutional laboratory for the entire world...
Leon Lederman, director of Fermilab, agrees. "Even if, miracle of miracles, in the next two years they solve all the problems of brittleness and high current," he says, "we would still need lots of experience to understand the materials well enough to make good magnets. A superconducting accelerator magnet is a Swiss watch of precision." One problem: superconducting magnetic fields are so strong they can actually deform the accelerator magnets that produce them. While physicists have learned to deal with that phenomenon at Fermilab, they have no idea how to handle fields that could be many times as strong...