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...induced in the strings. These currents could in turn produce intense magnetic fields around the strings, and particles, like electrons, caught in the fields would glow. In fact, a radio- telescope image of the center of the Milky Way, taken last spring by Mark Morris of UCLA and Farhad Yusef-Zadeh of Columbia University, shows threads that some astronomers think could indeed be glowing strings...
Indeed, the appearance of the magnetic arc was so unlike anything ever before observed in the universe that for weeks its three discoverers refused to accept their own finding. "We were very frustrated," says Farhad Yusef-Zadeh, a graduate student at Columbia University and one of the trio. "The first thing we thought was to try to get rid of the structure, to fudge the data. But it wouldn't go away...
...sneaked out of my home early one morning and flew to Zahedan, in southeastern Iran. With me I took a friend, Mirza Hashem Hosseini, and his wife, whose house had been raided and looted by a gang claiming to be Islamic Guards. Also with us was another friend, Farhad Yaqubian, who had been arrested and beaten. His crime: he had dropped by to play Ping-Pong with me shortly after my office was raided...
...Kansas City, the Iranian-born owner of Global International, Farhad Azima, expressed dismay that his airline might have been bamboozled into gunrunning by the charter firm in Belgium In Beirut, sources familiar with P.L.O. operations told TIME that other planeloads of weapons had been successfully flown to Central America from Libya and Algeria. All the-cargoes were disguised as medical supplies...
...last week: "Iran has been made a prime market in the Middle East. The Shah is a tool of the U.S. corporations." Others charge that the Shah's modernization program is largely a myth. "People are fighting with the regime because the Shah never did make land reforms," insists Farhad Ehya, a spokesman for the Iranian Student Organization at U.C.L.A. "Whatever he did, he took back. The people don't have education. They don't have health care...