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...problem, charges Roy Woodruff, the former director of weapons research at Livermore, is that Teller oversold the X-ray laser, a proposed Star Wars device under development at the lab, to President Reagan. Not only were some of Teller's statements "technically incorrect," claims Woodruff, but "the optimistic schedules proposed by Dr. Teller for deployment of an X-ray laser weapon are impossible." Woodruff's accusations have split the lab into bitter factions; they have also cast doubt on the scientific integrity of Livermore, a facility founded with Teller's support in 1952, and cast a shadow over Reagan...
Midnight in Moscow, and Vassily Aksyonov, like many young Soviets in the 1950s, would find himself in some dark cellar listening to American jazz from pirated records cut on used X-ray plates. "Jazz on Bones," he and his friends called that marriage of music and medicine. "From the moment I heard a recording of Melancholy Baby . . ." he recalls, "I couldn't get enough of the revelation coming to me through the shadows of ribs and alveoli, namely, that 'every cloud must have a silver lining...
...into a confrontation that could, if not handled carefully, develop into an old-fashioned trade war. In an extraordinary change of tone on the controversial issue of trade with Japan, the Reagan Administration announced plans to impose drastic 100% duties on several Japanese products, ranging from television sets to X-ray film. The Administration's goal, at - least initially, is to block some $300 million worth of Japanese merchandise in retaliation for Tokyo's failure to honor fully an eight-month-old agreement on trade in semiconductors...
Matthew H. Schneps, an associate of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, and Christine Jones, an X-ray astronomer at the Center, used their five-year-old research project to create a splashy new kind of planetarium show, called "Image Processing: The New Astronomy...
...preparation for Golovchenko's X-ray andelectron tunneling experiments, JeffersonLaboratory--which Professor of Physics Isaac F.Silvera said is the oldest Physics laboratory inthe country--will be renovated by July...