Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...March 23, as chemists B. Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann shocked the scientific world with the claim that they had beaten the physicists at their own game. Other scientists were cautious, but Dan Rather dived in headfirst. He led off the CBS Evening News that night with a fusion report, gushing about "what may be a tremendous scientific advance." Only a week later, physicist Steven Jones of Brigham Young University announced that he too had been producing cold fusion independently, generating neutrons but not heat. On April 1, two Hungarian scientists said that they had produced neutrons as well. Next...
...director to replace acting head Shirley Williams, a prominent British politician, comes in the midst of an ongoing debate at the school over the role of practical versus theoretical approaches to teaching public policy. President Derek C. Bok has even gotten involved in the discussion; his recently released annual report insisted that the school re-forge its links to traditional scholarship...
...There's a general sense that we need to hiremore minorities and women. The debate will be overwhat is the most effective way to do it. I thinkit's an error to assume that there is an effort togut the Verba report," Epps said
Other physicists at the convention supported Petrasso's report. Nathan Lewis, a chemist at the California Institute of Technology, said Monday that his duplications of the original experiment showed no evidence at all of nuclear reactions, even when the parameters of the experiment were changed...
These proxy resolutions on South Africa willoccupy more than half of all those considered bythe CCSR this spring, according to the group'smid-year report...