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Unable to restrain his laughter, DeVore was forced to reveal himself. But not after giving his students a real fright and leading them to question the wisdom of embarking on a wilderness adventure with a unpredictable scientist...
There is evidence that some cigarette-company researchers have long known that it is the nicotine that appeals to smokers. A 1972 internal memo by a Philip Morris scientist contended that "no one has ever become a cigarette smoker by smoking cigarettes without nicotine." That was proved again a few years ago, when the company introduced the nearly nicotine-free Next. The public wasn't interested. The industry claims smokers turn away from such cigarettes because they lack "taste" or "flavor." But researchers maintain that these cigarettes taste no different; they lack the kick nicotine provides. A 1992 study found...
...traveling companion and I found ourselves parked at the side of the road, approximately 93 miles south of Sverdlovsk-45, sharing a picnic lunch with a Russian scientist and two former military officers. Ignoring the freezing wind, we ate brown bread heaped with butter and red caviar. We drank tea from a thermos that had given up its heat hours ago, and stamped our feet in the snow as we discussed the import of a meeting held two hours earlier...
...Russians explained, that it would be preferable if my companion would agree to deal through another nuclear-weapons complex, this one in the Chelyabinsk region. If the businessman agreed, the three Russians were still willing to act as liaisons for the transaction. "You've met the KGB man," the scientist assured us. "There will be no problems. But for Chelyabinsk, they think it would be best if you make a development loan to a private company that has been set up, instead of buying the materials directly." As collateral for the loan, the company associated with the nuclear facility would...
...addition, a scientist in New Mexico has usedthe network to trigger a revolution in the highenergy physics field. A "pre-print" server set upby the scientist now allows physicists to submitand read papers before they are published in otherjournals...