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Harvard chemists have come up with a substance that in theory should be harder than diamond, considered the hardest substance on earth. The new synthetic material is a blend of carbon and nitrogen (diamond is all carbon), and if the researchers can make a chunk big enough and pure enough to test, they'll be able to see whether the theory is correct...
...only the hardest '50s egghead could deny that Halberstam has cobbled a blue-chip beach read. Shrewdly designed for today's shorter attention spans, The Fifties plugs in dozens of set pieces, vignettes and profiles from the period spanning the last days of World War II and the 1960 Nixon-Kennedy TV debates. The book ends abruptly with Dean Acheson complaining that both candidates appeared too cold, calculating and boring. It is Halberstam's way of trying to freshen up an old point: that the debates, in which Nixon looked uncomfortably shifty and Kennedy came off as poised and decisive...
Lacking her own power base, Reno is spending much of her time campaigning for the issues she cares most about. Wedged into her busy days are speeches to government, law-enforcement and community groups whose help will be crucial to building the consensus she needs. She is fighting hardest on two fronts: children's issues and cooperation among government agencies. "We spend more money trying to determine whether people are eligible for services than we do in serving them," Reno says. "We've got to figure out how to take the federal bureaucracy and weave it together as a whole...
...that soul baring was not enough, Clinton continued the confessional at a White House dinner. "It was the hardest decision I've had to make since I became President," he reportedly told guests. "I love her," he said of Guinier, a 20-year friend of the Clintons. "If she called me and told me she needed $5,000, I'd take it from my account and send it to her, no questions asked...
...Peckham gave the most credit to the individual who worked the hardest--Fronhofer himself...