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The book focuses on an experiment Rubbia conducted in 1984 in which he expected to uncover a sixth particle, which would fulfill a prediction he had made earlier and, the book says, insure his winning a Nobel. However, after Rubbia won the Nobel, the sixth particle turned out to be...

Author: By Julie L. Belcove, | Title: Rubbia Reportedly Threatened To Resign | 3/3/1987 | See Source »

No one's nerves were calmed last week by the spectacle of another once powerful Wall Streeter getting a prison sentence. Dennis Levine, a former managing director at the Drexel Burnham Lambert investment firm who broke open the scandal last year by implicating Boesky, drew a term of two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Pinstripes to Prison Stripes | 3/2/1987 | See Source »

The affair has quickly become known as Wall Street's Watergate. That hardly seems an exaggerated description for the drama of financial power and corruption that was exploding on both coasts of the U.S. last week. An enormous scandal was spreading at the core of America's investment community, touching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going After the Crooks | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

Doctors at the conference stressed that detecting silent ischemia will not merely prevent a few thousand dramatic deaths. It will also uncover heart disease in many people who are unaware that they have it. The stress and Holter tests are costly (about $200 each), according to Dr. Carl Pepine, a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Fighting the Silent Attacker | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

Enters a new word--EXPLORE, find out, uncover what had been hidden. The languages receive it; people speak and write it in awareness that out there in space promises lie concealed; and in that consciousness the thought glimmers of alternatives to the narrow, known, closed world. In choice, hope lies...

Author: By Victoria G.T. Bassetti, | Title: The Pitfalls of Heroic History Writing | 11/24/1986 | See Source »

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