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...understand and appreciate the need for confidentiality to protect individuals. But the University's silence has left a vacuum now filled by destructive rumor and innuendo which can only further harm the victims of Professor Dominguez's reported abuse...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: About Dominguez | 10/7/1983 | See Source »

...requisite political intrigue, exotic locale and torrid sex to endear it to countless moviegoers. What's more, Beyond the Limit has Richard Gere and Michael Caine, two tried and tested actors, to carry things alone. But from this mass of potential, director John MacKenzie has crafted a remarkable vacuum...

Author: By Holly A. Idelson, | Title: A Film With Plenty of Nothing | 10/7/1983 | See Source »

...Vacuum tubes are the brain cells of modern technology. Each year, as machines take on more complex jobs, more & more vacuum tubes are needed. But they are tricky to manufacture: they are usually both bulky and fragile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SCIENCE 1948: Little Brain Cell: Vacuum Tubes | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

Last week Bell Telephone Laboratories demonstrated a small, simple device that can do many of the jobs now done by vacuum tubes. Called a "Transistor," it is a slim metal cylinder about an inch long. Inside are two hair-thin wires whose points press, two-thousandths of an inch apart, on a pinhead of germanium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SCIENCE 1948: Little Brain Cell: Vacuum Tubes | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

...imaginative physicist named Robert H. Goddard talked of some day reaching the moon with a new breed of multistage rockets powered by liquid fuel, an editorial in the New York Times noted sarcastically that Goddard didn't know that a rocket had "to have something better than a vacuum against which to react...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Frontiers of Science 1980: A whole series of giant leaps for mankind | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

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