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Being first in the pack has its drawbacks. When someone gets caught with a hand in the cookie jar, everyone always turns to the person at the top. These days, Harvard is feeling that pressure more than ever...
...innocent explanation for the fact that Stanley Pons has dropped out of sight, hiding his whereabouts from the press and his employers. Granted, the University of Utah chemist has been under pressure since March 1989, when he and British colleague Martin Fleischmann said they had created fusion in a jar. Skeptical scientists doubted that the pair had tamed the sun's power source -- at room temperature. The complaint was not just that they had announced their discovery at a press conference rather than in a scientific journal but also that no one else had been able to replicate the experiment...
...guards. Only a faint light glows from the single electric bulb hanging in the corridor. Thin rubber mattresses with small gray blankets cover the 10-ft. by 13-ft. concrete floor, and the air reeks of sweat. There are no personal effects, no furniture, only a small jar of water and a big plastic can that alternates as a toilet and a washbasin...
Bush transferred his Yale first-baseman's mitt out of the lower drawer of his walnut desk to his private quarters. He picked up two new grandchildren (for a total of twelve) and added six puppies by First Dog Millie. The President proudly stuck in his pencil jar a small U.S. flag given to him by an Army ranger wounded in the fighting to oust Noriega...
...eight-inch box in question arrived in the mail that day, and contained only "a jar of homemade blackberry jam," said Michael Ahern, a member of the bomb squad...