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...couple of weeks after the trials, news turned sour. The team's freshest ) and most promising woman sprinter, a square-rigged stormer named Angel Myers, from Americus, Ga., who had qualified in ba timlibthree events, was banished for a drug violation. She claimed that tests misread a birth-control drug as a steroid. But she was out, replaced by Butterflyer Janel Jorgensen and Freestyler Jill Sterkel (who thus made her fourth Olympic team...
...also have to be brilliant. Of the 20,000 people employed by Bell Labs in 19 facilities spread throughout the nation, 2,769 are Ph.D.s. "The brainpower around here is enormous," says Physicist Horst Stormer, referring to the Murray Hill branch, where a force of 3,200 does much of Bell's basic research. "This is like a university with a faculty of 500 physicists. If all of us took off and went to different universities, we wouldn't have the same impact." But clumped together, like uranium fuel rods in a reactor, the physicists and other Murray Hillers form...
Lunan, whose article was the topic of a special meeting of the British Interplanetary Society in London last week, has reached back to the early days of radio for support for his contention. In the late 1920s, the Norwegian geophysicist Carl Stormer and a Dutch collaborator, Balthasar van der Pol, sent each other a number of short-wave radio messages. The purpose of the tests was to study a curious side effect. At times the radio signals were followed by mysterious echoes that were picked up as many as 15 seconds after the original transmissions. Indeed, the delays were...
Intrigued by Bracewell's musings, Lunan searched back into the original reports published by Stormer and Van der Pol, who had kept records of the varying intervals between the original signals and their echoes. On the chance that these variations might represent a code, Lunan began to make graphs from them. He used one axis of the graph as a measure of the amount of time each echo was delayed. The other axis indicated the position of each echo in the sequence of echoes. Plotting the points determined by those coordinates yielded no recognizable pattern. But when Lunan reversed...
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