Word: roberte
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...neutrons or heat, but did detect other fusion by-products. Pons met the public again on April 17, at a press conference, to say there were some 30 institutions that had confirmed his results but were reluctant to go public with the information, in part "for legal reasons." But Robert Huggins, a Stanford materials scientist, had no legal qualms. He reported excess heat from a cold-fusion device tucked into a red picnic cooler. Because he performed a control experiment to rule out a conventional chemical reaction, this was the strongest confirmation yet. The next day, Francesco Scaramuzzi, a bearded...
...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...
...plenty of skeptics," notes Richard Muller, a physicist at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, "but I can't find any great discovery of the past 50 years that was published with a bad paper. If a freshman physics or chemistry major had done it, they would have flunked." Says Robert G. Sachs, former director of ! Argonne National Laboratory: "It doesn't meet the kind of standards you'd want to meet for nuclear physics. It doesn't even meet the standards of testing in inorganic chemistry. It's a shame. They obviously just got too excited about it to think straight...
...Photos, Please: Members of Harvard's two governing boards have long been wary of the press, and Secretary to the Governing Boards Robert Shenton has not spoken to any Crimson reporter in recent memory. When a Crimson reporter asked one of Shenton's assistants if a photographer could take a picture of the Corporation meeting room at 17 Quincy St.--while it was empty--the assistant said that would be impossible because the room contained too many valuable artworks and antiques...
...race for the 1988 Republican nomination, George Bush effectively eliminated Robert Dole from the race by using advertisements that accused Dole of flip-flopping on major issues. This criticism is equally applicable to the council. The council is guilty of political opportunism. Many council members claimed that they were not aware of the extent to which the military discriminated against homosexuals. Any witness to the debate surrounding the council's original call to reinstitute ROTC would be hard-pressed to find confirmation for such a claim...