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What would it take, they were asked, to make that dream a reality? Money from Congress, of course. University of Utah President Chase Peterson, who was right there at the scientists' side, suggested that $25 million would be a nice sum to help his school set up a fusion research center. Some of the Congressmen appeared eager to oblige. "Today," rhapsodized Robert Roe, a New Jersey Democrat, "we may be poised on the threshold of a new era. It is possible that we may be witnessing the cold-fusion revolution...
While no one has proved conclusively that Pons and Fleischmann are wrong, it seems likely that they jumped to a hasty conclusion based on incomplete research. Scientists in Japan and Switzerland announced that their own tests had convinced them the original work was flawed. An attempt by the Harwell Laboratory in Britain to confirm the discovery has also produced nothing, even though Fleischmann himself checked the experiments...
When the IOP was founded in 1966, its first director, noted presidential scholar Richard E. Neustadt, hoped the institute would one day evolve into a research center focusing on governance questions...
Other Students came for more practical reasons. Aoibheann Sweeney '91 wanted to speak to an authority on The Color Purple, the topic of her sophomore tutorial research paper...
Wheeler argued that "ROTC only wants to be granted the same access rights to the campus as other groups," and added that Harvard gladly accepts money for military research projects...