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When a wire containing a core of the new alloy snaps, whiskers sprout from both ends of the break. In a few days, the whiskers can bridge a gap one millimeter wide (about one twenty-fifth of an inch) and carry one watt of electrical power-enough for most of the delicate circuitry in modern spacecraft. Collision with a sizable meteoroid might result in damage too extensive for whisker therapy, admits Minneapolis-Honeywell Physicist William Jarnagin, who led the team that developed the alloy. But that hardly matters, he adds somberly. "Everything would go then...
Whatever these new schools become, the men creating them are counting on what Sussex Dean Ian Watt, fresh from the University of California, calls Britain's rising "rebels against the social order"-youngsters fed up with established codes and hypocrisies. "The new universities will be beneficiaries of their spirit," says Watt. Impatient to innovate, Sussex Vice Chancellor Fulton sums up the view of all his colleagues: "This is a great adventure...
...former research assistant at Columbus Children's Hospital, Dr. Norman F. Watt, has been appointed assistant professor of Clinical Psychology...
...tough target to hit, for it is only 3,010 miles in diameter, not very much bigger than the moon, and its orbit keeps it close to the troublesome sun. When Goldstone's radar waves set out for Mercury, they had an effective strength of 25 billion watts. By the time they straggled back, they mustered only five ten-thousandths of a billionth of a billionth of a watt. They had lost the even regularity of oscillation with which they had started, and now they were wiggling wildly because of the beatings they had taken on the surface...
...heads of state and 2,000 other guests, all back-slapping and jovial, were feasting at the board of their medaled host, Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie. As waiters in green-and-gold livery moved among food-laden tables, the throng fell to on caviar, roast chicken, spiced lamb and watt (spongy Ethiopian bread), washed down with hundreds of gallons of French wine, Ethiopian honey wine, and vintage champagne. Then, as the clock ticked past midnight, everybody sat back to watch the Emperor's select group of flimsily clad dancing girls writhe to the tootles of the Imperial Bodyguard Band...