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...developing a new way to study the building blocks of all matter -- atoms and molecules. The $930,000 physics prize will be shared by Clifford G. Shull of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Bertram N. Brockhouse of McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. Both developed a way to probe atomic structure by knocking off neutrons from particles of matter...
...Columbus, Ohio, on charges that it conspired with a unit of South Africa's De Beers mining company to fix the price of industrial diamonds. GE vigorously denies the Justice Department charges. Meanwhile, the FBI armed a GE whistle-blower with a hidden tape recorder last year to probe charges that the company had repeatedly ignored warnings about electrical problems that could compromise the safety of its aircraft engines. Not only has the whistle-blower brought a multimillion dollar suit against GE (the company calls the suit "frivolous and outrageous"), but the Justice Department is considering whether to bring...
...sticks to markets that it already knows. But allegations directed at the company's industrial-diamond and jet-engine businesses show that GE has been unsteady there as well. Insisting that GE had done nothing wrong, Welch refused a Justice Department offer in February to settle the diamond probe with a plea of no contest. "We think our chances of winning are good," he says, "but you never know before a jury...
...cloud of a possible independent-counsel probe fell over Housing Secretary Henry Cisneros: the Justice Department indicated it was beginning a preliminary review of Cisneros' payments to a former mistress and the statements he made about the money to federal agents prior to his appointment. Meanwhile, Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy, who is already the target of an independent counsel investigation regarding his travel expenses, let it be known that he has been voluntarily writing personal reimbursement checks to various benefactors in order to clear up any appearance of impropriety...
Visual and Environmental Studies 104r. Body (parts), Identities, Powers: "...The second half addresses contemporary issues, including the modernist occlusion of the face, the totalitiarian power-head, and the cinematic face, ending with the 'probe-head...