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- <text id=92TT2716>
- <title>
- Dec. 07, 1992: Not Crystal Clear
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Dec. 07, 1992 Can Russia Escape Its Past?
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 30
- HEALTH & SCIENCE
- Not Crystal Clear
- </hdr><body>
- <p>Zero-gravity protein is no reason to build a space station,
- say scientists
- </p>
- <p> One of the arguments for building the multibillion-dollar
- space station Freedom is that it would provide a zero-gravity
- laboratory to grow bigger and purer protein and silicon
- crystals. But increasingly there is a question as to whether the
- crystal-growing techniques, at least for proteins, are all that
- reliable. Reviewing a decade's worth of such space efforts,
- scientists writing in Nature found that less than a quarter of
- the experiments actually worked, and then with only mixed
- success. Their recommendation: rent time aboard the already
- orbiting Russian space station Mir.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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