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...South America, was beginning to give the doubters pause. Then, on April 25, the tide turned. Georgia Tech, having hastily withdrawn its fusion results the previous week for fear that its equipment was bad, made the reversal official. "I don't think fusion occurred," said embarrassed team leader James Mahaffey. There was worse news to come. The collaboration between Brookhaven National Laboratory and Yale, using an array of the most sophisticated equipment available, concluded its tests of cold fusion and found nothing. No other national lab had done any better. And on April 27, the British journal Nature, to which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A Chronology of Nuclear Confusion | 5/8/1989 | See Source »

...detect any neutrons being given off. And Georgia Tech's effort, patched together with deuterium from a local chemical outfit and palladium ordered from a Chicago precious-metals dealer, had a serious flaw. The neutron counter that indicated fusion was apparently not working properly. Said team leader James Mahaffey to the Atlanta Constitution: "I have really been in agony. The announcement was impetuous. The problem is that this is like a race." Even Pons' appearance in Dallas was marred, when some members of the audience sharply questioned his techniques and thoroughness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fusion Fever Is on the Rise | 4/24/1989 | See Source »

...Coleman) by striking a shady deal with the local toxic-waste company. Meanwhile, his randy wife Talon (Teri Garr) roams the farm looking for bedmates; his younger brother Kevin (Anthony Heald) takes a vow of celibacy to protest the killing of sperm whales; an adopted sibling named Tiffany (Valerie Mahaffey) embarks on a search for her real parents; and a mysterious stranger (Gregory Harrison) shows up with his own dark secrets -- not the least of which is why he never wears a shirt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: A Raisin in the Fun: Fresno | 11/17/1986 | See Source »

...figures and fanciful situations makes a genial noise. This is the land of vaudeville revisionism previously charted by Indians, Travesties and Cloud 9, where social satire speaks in the vocabulary of dreams-the mind's own romance language. It is a pleasure to see Cynthia Harris (Charlotte), Valerie Mahaffey (Emily) and the 19 other cast members cavort so merrily on the tabletop stage of Manhattan's Playwrights Horizons Theater, complementing the grandeur of Parnell's vision with the grandiosity of their performances. As Walt might have proclaimed, Dream big, boys and girls! And dream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Art Is Messy | 12/10/1984 | See Source »

...People were sprawled all over," recalled Susan Mahaffey, 17. "There wasn't much blood, but most of the people were lying very still. Some were unconscious. A couple looked dead." Dozens of shoes, lost in the panicked scramble, were strewn along the block. A baby carriage lay overturned and empty. Blood began to seep along the concrete...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: He Just Mowed Them Down: driver causes chaos and death in L.A. | 8/6/1984 | See Source »

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