Word: fusions
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...hometown, where "there was always somebody with a guitar. I learned that with three chords I could transpose just about any song and play it." Now Black's traveling band reflects his informal and eclectic approach. "The guys," he says, "have played every kind of music imaginable, from jazz fusion to hard country, so we've got room to stretch...
Nestled on Albany St. at the edge of the square, a set of red brick buildings marks the beginning of the new Cambridge, a cluster of high-tech firms with names like BASF Bioresearch, Transkaryotic Therapies, and Kurzweil. But next door to the MIT plasma fusion center, at 240 Albany St., lies a complex of two trailers that seems oddly misplaced in this new industrial mecca...
...results have been both disappointing and intriguing: the experiments have detected far fewer neutrinos than solar models predicted. Scientists were especially baffled by a recent report from a Soviet-American research team that set up a detector to monitor neutrinos emitted by the fusion of hydrogen atoms, the sun's main reaction. After four months of operation near the Soviet town of Baksan, the experiment has yet to turn up a single solar neutrino...
Experimental evidence indicates that neutrinos come in three varieties: the electron neutrino, the muon neutrino and the tau neutrino. Solar fusion gives off the electron type. Bahcall and Bethe speculate that electron neutrinos change into the muon or tau versions somewhere between the sun and Earth. "It's as if they started out sweet," marvels Bethe, who won the Nobel Prize in 1967 for explaining how nuclear fusion powers the sun, "and then suddenly turned salty." Thus the Baksan experiment may have come up empty- handed because it was not designed to detect muon or tau neutrinos...
...world of politics, the fusion of style, conviction and prescience had the paradoxical effect of giving Reagan flexibility. When Reagan seized the opportunity, late in his second term, to negotiate American intermediate-range missiles out of Europe, he provoked far less anguish among his movement conservative supporters than Richard Nixon did when he went to China. Reagan, unlike Nixon, had a reserve fund of trust, and he drew on it. A more pertinent example of a low-cost Reagan switch comes from his days as Governor of California. Reagan, as part of his general opposition to high taxes, believed that...