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...accomplishment of Chu and his team did nothing to dampen their competitors' enthusiasm. Indeed, the effect was just the reverse. In order to protect his patent, Chu refused to disclose the exact composition of his new material before the formal report was published in the March 2 Physical Review Letters, but other scientists thought they could easily guess its makeup and went to work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Superconductors! | 5/11/1987 | See Source »

...scientific papers. Says Metallurgist Frank Fradin, director of Argonne's materials science division, who is also an associate editor of Physical Review Letters: "As of three weeks ago, we had 98 papers submitted on the subject, and only a small fraction of them will ever get published. Progress is so rapid that a result of two to three weeks ago is already out of date. We've had to institute a whole new system to speed up the publication process." One important discovery: at least a dozen different compounds, all subtly different from the one Chu found, appear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Superconductors! | 5/11/1987 | See Source »

...could warrant a redesign of the accelerator. "It might be possible to shrink the radius down to ten miles," says Cornell Physicist James Krumhansl, president- elect of the American Physical Society. "What I say is, let's put the matter into one more year of research and development and review it next year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ssc: Lord of the Rings | 5/11/1987 | See Source »

...board hired new auditors and ordered a full review of compensation. The Bakkers apparently will no longer have use of the residence provided by PTL, but they own two comfortable homes elsewhere. PTL is expected to unload the lakefront home near Fort Mill where Dortch lives, along with five resort properties and assorted boats and luxury cars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Taking Command at Fort Mill | 5/11/1987 | See Source »

...Brussels to coordinate the West's response to the latest Soviet offer. At the same time in Luxembourg foreign and defense ministers of the seven-nation Western European Union (WEU), a defense forum made up of Britain, France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, huddled to review the security implications of the Soviet offer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Western Europe Nervous About Nuclear Security | 5/11/1987 | See Source »

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