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...bothered to change the light bulbs, is full of more than 600 demonstrations that Rueckner and his staff assemble and prepare for professors at the drop of a hat. Every year, Rueckner and his team of three full-time assistant scientists -- two physicists and a chemist -- concoct and build a dozen or so original demonstrations, which are eventually stored here. Aside from these tried and true experiments, Wolf says that when a professor has a specific wish, "we see what...
...failings and excesses, both real and perceived. Why, critics ask, after a decade of effort, have researchers not found a cure for AIDS, or why can't they figure out, after nearly a half-century, how to store nuclear wastes safely or build spacecraft that work? Why do they concoct compounds that end up as toxic waste or court danger by tinkering with genes...
Eyes twinkling, hands folded across her swelling belly, Arlette Schweitzer imagines the headlines a tabloid might concoct to sensationalize her admittedly unusual condition. The exercise amuses her no end -- probably because there is nothing the least bit bizarre about this cheerful 42-year-old librarian who lives with her husband Dan, a fluffy white cat named Boom Boom and a cocker spaniel named Special on a tree-lined street in Aberdeen, S. Dak. What a visitor notices above all in their cozy, split-level house is the photographs of smiling kids: grandchildren, nieces and nephews and, over the living-room...
Sound farfetched, the kind of Rube Goldberg scheme an armchair academic would concoct, oblivious to political realities? Not at all. The Public Broadcasting Service has quietly embraced Fishkin's idea and plans to televise six to eight hours of excerpts of the exercise during the weekend of Jan. 17-19, a month before the 1992 campaign formally begins with the Iowa caucuses. Named the National Issues Convention, the three-day, $3.5 million conclave in Austin holds the potential to shape the late-starting, who's-running-anyway Democratic race and provide a forum for the Bush Administration to field-test...
Despite last week's chaos, the White House and Congress will doubtless stumble their way to at least a short-term solution to the budget crisis. It is conceivable that they will concoct a much better remedy. But even if a five-year, $500 billion deficit reduction is finally put into place, the cumulative debt will still grow by roughly $500 billion over those five years. That danger alone should stiffen the spine of even the mostly cowardly politician in Washington...