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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?
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<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>
</body></article>
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