Nobel science prizewinners reshape future tech and medicine
Nobel laureates in physics chemistry and medicine reveal advances from high temperature superconductors to gene driven antibody diversity and synthetic hosts that mimic enzymes. The work promises cheaper magnets faster computers cancer and AIDS tools, safer waste cleanup, and new catalytic methods with environmental and energy applications.
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Alex Mueller
Georg Bednorz
International Business Machines Corp
Switzerland
Susumu Tonegawa
Mit
Donald J. Cram
UCLA
Jean-Marie Lehn
Louis Pasteur Institute
Strasbourg
France
Charles J. Pederson
E.L. du Pont de Nemours & Co
Delaware
Tonegawa
Napoleon
IBM
Mueller
Bednorz
Paul Chu
University of Houston
Jay Miller
Cram
Ucla Monthly
Social trends reshape Soviet life in perestroika era
Moscow looks at changes 70 years after the revolution as fashion, music, youth culture, and street life mirror Western trends. Western tourists, pop magazines, and new freedoms collide with shortages, vodka limits, and broader openness under Gorbachev. Budget youths seek Western symbols while older generations seek stability.
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Moscow
Red Guards
St. Petersburg Winter Palace
Soviet Union
Vladimir Sych Lenin
Levi's
Adidas
Arbat Street
South
Central Asia
Afghanistan
Soviet
Uzbekistan
Kazakhstan
Komsomol
Mikhail Gorbachevy
Communist Party
Scripna Howard News Service
C&P Telephone speaker urges area code dialing in Maryland
Bruce Sheppard of C&P Telephone spoke at Glade Valley Lions Club urging Maryland subscribers to dial the area code for long distance calls beginning November 1. The move reflects growth in the Baltimore-Washington region. He also serves as Lions Club secretary, with President Brooks Widder pictured beside him.
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Bruce Sheppard
C&p Telephone
Glade Valley Lions Club
C&p
Maryland
Baltimore-Washington
Sheppard
Brooks Widder
China’s Sichuan Factory Chiefs Demand Faster Reforms
In Sichuan provinces factory heads urge Beijing during the 13th Communist Party Congress to accelerate reforms seeking more autonomy in planning, freer markets for raw materials, and easier worker mobility. Chen Erfu’s silk mill expanded to 936 workers, while local leaders push for rural enterprise freedom and faster urbanization to fuel growth.
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Bai Long Township
China
Chen Erfu
Communist Party
Beijing
Chen
Sichuan
Tian Yuan
Zhang Jizhen
Deng Xiaoping
Zhao Ziyang
Zhang
Deng
Ma Xinglong
Deyang
Panzhihua Iron and Steel Co
Chengdu
Qian Zéngshi
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Pierl
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