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...once pencil, paper and a few gadgets, have become tremendously complicated and expensive tools like high-energy accelerators Made possible by the new, high technology and machinery, physics research has surged into areas never before dreamed of Perhaps most importantly, infinitesimally small quarks--the building blocks of more familiar sub-atomic particles like protons and nuetrons--have been found...

Author: By Christopher J. Georges, | Title: Get Physical | 7/13/1984 | See Source »

...Hale Irwin neglected to break par 70 on any of the four days, but his seven-over-par score won the tournament by two shots. This year, when agronomists left the course relatively alone, Irwin led with three sub-par rounds before collapsing spectacularly under the combined weight of Winged Foot's patient vengeance and a second straight day of Zoeller's rollicking gallery. These days a golfer unafraid to smile is likely to be followed anywhere. Before the playoff, Zoeller said, "I kept hearing people say, 'Don't let the money out of the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Sportsmanship by Eight Strokes | 7/2/1984 | See Source »

Cancer in the liver is most often associated with exposure to hepatitis-B virus, which is now rare in the United States, but carried by an estimated 250-300 million people worldwide. It is most common in the Far East and sub-Saharan Africa...

Author: By Melissa I. Weissberg, | Title: Doctors Predict Success of New Test | 6/29/1984 | See Source »

Reagan telephoned Cohen, saying that he liked the build-down idea. But Pentagon and NSC officials did not. Reagan was interested in the possibility of collaboration with moderates on the Hill; his advisers, however, were concerned about the sub stance of the build-down proposal, which would lump bombers and cruise missiles together with ballistic missiles. That feature, known as "comprehensiveness" or "aggregation" of bombers and missiles, might have helped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battling the Gods of War | 6/25/1984 | See Source »

...Olympic Committee added anabolic steroids to its list of banned sub stances in 1973. Since then, the drugs have become ever more widely used as men and women seek to push their bodies to still higher levels of attainment. In the U.S., where synthetic steroids were developed about half a century ago, their use is thought to extend from world-class athletes to high school football players. Soviet and East European trainers are widely believed to have been giving the drugs to their athletes since the 1950s. Nor will it be possible for athletes to escape detection simply by stopping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Toughest Test for Athletes | 6/25/1984 | See Source »

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