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...first generation of nuclear weapons were the fission bombs of the 1940s and early '50s. In their quest for more powerful blasts, scientists developed fusion bombs, which became the second generation of nuclear weapons. Now a third generation is being developed that stresses finesse and pinpoint targeting...
...artist dies in a prestigious big- city hospital after a rather routine gallbladder operation. The state health department investigates and finds the hospital guilty of a range of "deficiencies," in both preparing the patient for surgery and providing follow-up care. The city's chief medical examiner fails to pinpoint the cause of death and refers the case to the district attorney for possible criminal investigation. Meanwhile the hospital cries foul, complaining that the allegations are "uniformly incorrect." It acknowledges guilt of only minor procedural lapses in supervising nurses, none of which contributed to the artist's death...
...chance that they might finally be able to pinpoint a specific progenitor star, which could finally confirm or recast their theories about how supernovas explode, has astronomers beside themselves with excitement. "It's like Christmas," says Woosley. "We've been waiting for this for 383 years." Agrees Kirshner: "Everyone in the field has been calling each other up, partly for scientific reasons and partly for sheer pleasure. It's like when someone has a baby -- it's a great event, and you just want to talk...
WHEN EARLY '70s Black funk music met Abba, disco was born. Did it grow out of the joy that met Nixon's abdication? Was it a defense against Ford-induced boredom? Or was it somehow related to skateboarding and pop rocks? The first "disco" song is equally hard to pinpoint, but Pablo Cruise probably had something to do with...
...AIDS-related pneumonia in Kobe, a western coastal city on the island of Honshu. The victim, a prostitute, was unquestionably heterosexual. Fear rattled the country like an earthquake. Stock in condom manufacturers soared by as much as 500 points on the Tokyo exchange. A TV news special seeking to pinpoint the source of the problem, suggested darkly that foreign sailors frequenting Kobe's red-light district were to blame, and asked: "Can Kobe live down this shame...