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...broad range means that all the figures are fairly wild guesses. Indeed, Cory Coll, leader of an S.D.I. research group at the University of California's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, predicts it will be five years before any halfway realistic estimate can be made of the cost of developing X-ray lasers as a warhead-killing weapon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exploring the High-Tech Frontier | 3/11/1985 | See Source »

...example, that now teaches 150 youngsters reading and arithmetic, plus a variety of "coping skills." He started a plant nursery in what was once a junkyard, where tenants can pick out trees for their yards. With the help of Ronald Range, a black detective from Boston, he organized "X-ray units," small tactical police squads that worked closely with community leaders to protect each oasis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man of the Year | 1/7/1985 | See Source »

...This is no restatement of the obvious; an elephant may push an E, but what is that long-tailed bird perched atop the Q? What kind of fish are swimming in the water trapped by the upper part of the X? What is that spotted amphibian sliding down the N? Answers: a quetzal; an X-ray fish; a newt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Small Wonders For the Young | 12/17/1984 | See Source »

...pulsar was identified by through its X-ray pulses by Frederick D. Seward and Frank R. Harnden of the Center for Astrophysics and David Helfand of Columbia University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Physicists Locate Pulsar | 10/10/1984 | See Source »

...this not so improbable dilemma: an "Anthology of Introductions" to books that will probably be compiled but certainly not read in the future. Take Necrobes. Please. The collection features 139 reproductions of the work of Cezary Strzybisz. His art is achieved with the aid of an X-ray camera. Fore worded is forewarned: "What Strzybisz has captured within the leaden diaphragm of his lenses is the most obtrusive, licentious, audacious form of sex: group sex. It has been said that he wanted to deride pornomania, that he gave an accurate reading of it (one reduced to its bare bones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sci-Phi | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

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