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...ZURICH...
...longer vague but had taken on physical form -- piles of papers littering brokers' desks, each representing a hastily scribbled order to sell stock; rows of numbers flashing on computer screens, bringing news of alarming price breaks in all the early-opening markets: Tokyo, Hong Kong, London, Paris, Zurich...
...scientists, working at the IBM labs near Zurich, discovered a new ceramic that raised the temperature to 35 K. Since then, other researchers have used similar materials to achieve superconductivity at even higher temperatures. Indeed, Paul C.W. Chu of the University of Houston and colleagues reached 98 K, or -283 degrees F, an achievement some physicists think should have earned Chu a share of the prize. That level of cooling can be achieved with more readily available liquid nitrogen. Suddenly, a wide range of applications seems economically feasible: trains that ride on a cushion of magnetism; smaller, faster supercomputers; more...
American scientists have eagerly pursued that future since last winter, when a burst of research activity rescued superconductors from relative obscurity. The excitement followed a discovery in the spring of 1986 by IBM scientists in Zurich. Their find: a metallic ceramic compound that became a superconductor at a temperature well above the previously achieved record of 23.2 Kelvin, or -418 degrees F. By year's end researchers were developing materials that became superconductors at higher and higher temperatures. At the University of Houston, a team led by Paul C.W. Chu set the currently recognized standard last February, when it produced...
...money the waters. Granted, the first stage of the hearings will focus on the secret funding network for the contras. But face it, the only people excited by the details of Swiss bank accounts are the Gnomes of Zurich. So let the committee counsels do this work for you. Otherwise, warns Republican Media Consultant Roger Ailes, "you could end up looking like a chief financial officer discussing the cash-flow management for the coming marketing season...