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...that are being dumped onto the vast concrete acreage, then pushed by special dozers toward the trench that will catch the corn on conveyer belts and carry it with a kind of clanking Modern Times idiot ingenuity up a ramp to be mechanically husked and then borne inside the maw of the factory to its fate. So much corn has an unexpected rich barnyard kind of smell, a cloying excess of smell. Bush appears with his two oldest grandchildren, walks toward a monster mound of corn and, as photographers record the event, he acts like a man waiting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Of Myth and Memory | 10/24/1988 | See Source »

...team tried lanthanum, the rare-earth* component of the IBM compound. Maw-Kuen Wu, head of the team's Alabama unit and a former graduate student of Chu's, replaced the lanthanum with another rare-earth element, yttrium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Superconductors! | 5/11/1987 | See Source »

Suddenly, at 93 Kelvin (-292 degrees F), the resistance dropped precipitously. The substance had become a superconductor, able to transmit current with virtually no loss of energy. "We were so excited and so nervous that our hands were shaking," says Physicist Maw-kuen Wu. "At first we were suspicious that it was an error...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Superconductivity Heats Up | 3/2/1987 | See Source »

...even really exist. The majority of the Square had been replaced by a giant canyon of concrete and twisted metal, the likes of which had not been seen since the days of the London V-2 blitz. The real problem, however, was what surrounded the subway's gaping maw...

Author: By Benjamin N. Smith, | Title: Square Ordeal | 4/23/1986 | See Source »

...gorged on Americana that even a child of capitalism might have had a tummyache. On her fifth and final stop in Los Angeles, Katya made forays to Disneyland and Universal Studios, where , respectively she collected the standard Mouseketeer ears and mugged for the camera in the huge paw and maw of King Kong. At one point Katya seemed to have gone Hollywood, donning a pair of sunglasses and telling students, "I want to be a film director." In fact, she is already a somewhat experienced actress, having appeared back home in five peace-promoting films. Earlier, in Houston, she visited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 14, 1986 | 4/14/1986 | See Source »

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