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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...longer. Using an exacting imaging technique called X-ray crystallography that shows the precise spatial relationship of atoms within a large molecule, the team of scientists was able to lay bare the structure of the gp120 protein and its two favorite receptors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Caught in The Act | 6/29/1998 | See Source »

...compensation: as the water drains out of the pond of contemporary art, as the belief in everlasting invention that was hard-wired into American expectations during the 1960s dwindles, small bass and medium carp are treated as potential Moby Dicks. Witness the California artist Charles Ray, 45, whose mid-career retrospective, curated by Paul Schimmel of Los Angeles' Museum of Contemporary Art, recently opened at New York City's Whitney Museum of American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sculptural One-Liners | 6/29/1998 | See Source »

AXAF is the third of NASA's major observatories, along with the Hubble Space Telescope and the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory...

Author: By Jennifer M. Siegel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Crew Prepares For Shuttle Mission | 6/26/1998 | See Source »

Semi-circular rows of computers, electronic switchboards and unobtrusive decor make the Operations Control Center (OCC) for NASA's Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility (AXAF) look like a scaled-down version of the mission control rooms in movies...

Author: By Jennifer M. Siegel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Crew Prepares For Shuttle Mission | 6/26/1998 | See Source »

...will travel on a highly elliptical orbit for five to seven years. AXAF will observe the universe in fifty times more detail than any previous X-ray telescope. The satellite combines the ability to make sharp images while measuring precisely the energies of X-rays coming from cosmic sources...

Author: By Jennifer M. Siegel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Crew Prepares For Shuttle Mission | 6/26/1998 | See Source »

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