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Looking toward the future, supernovae study may lead to a whole new realm of physics, Seward says. For example, pulsars contain gravitational fields more powerful than can possibly be created on Earth...

Author: By Christopher J. Georges, | Title: Bringing Dead Stars Back to Life | 11/2/1984 | See Source »

Together, Sprouse and Gaultier have become the designers of the moment. The tour boats that cruise down the Seine past Gaultier's Paris apartment, flooding his living room with light, may actually contain rivals doing some industrial spying. Sprouse minis and Gaultier jackets have a very short life on the racks. Their clothes sell out both in pace-setting boutiques and in department stores like Macy's. Not since the Britain of the '60s have rock sensibility and fashion been so close-knit. "The raw energy behind rock 'n' roll inspires me," says Sprouse. "Rock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The New Bad Boys of Fashion | 10/29/1984 | See Source »

Despite its lack of popular approval, this muticolored, asymmetrical giant will soon contain some of the finest art objects in the Boston area...

Author: By Jennifer A. Kingson, | Title: Warehouse or Museum? | 10/22/1984 | See Source »

...over the Gulf of Maine, which lies between Massachusetts and Nova Scotia. The decision awards the U.S. about two-thirds of the gulf and Canada the rest. The 30,000-sq.-mi. area includes the Georges Bank, one of the world's richest fishing grounds, which may also contain sizable deposits of oil and natural...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disputes: Splitting the Difference | 10/22/1984 | See Source »

...about to buy an American supercomputer, a so-called Craig 1, from France, ostensibly to help them forecast the weather on the steppes of Siberia. In fact, the Soviets intend to use the machine, one of the world's most powerful, to get into Western data banks that contain American military and technological secrets. Rather than objecting to the supercomputer sale, U.S. intelligence officials decide to capitalize on it. They dispatch an M.I.T. scientist to Paris to plant a "softbomb," or programmed booby trap, in the computer's meteorologic software. The key to the ploy is the information...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: War Games | 10/15/1984 | See Source »

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