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THE PANTAGRAPH, Wednesday, May 3. 1989 A7 Barbara Bush getting rave reviews More critical reaction to cold fusion claims (But) I very carefully pick things that need help, and if it helps that's wonderful for me. I'm not there for self-aggrandizement. I'm there because they need help. "And don't forget," Mrs.

Bush continued, "I don't fool around in the U.S. government. I leave that to other people. This is the way I can help." While few of any political stripe are willing to make on-the-record comparisons between them, the contrast between the White House styles of Barbara Bush and Nancy Reagan are apparent almost daily. During Nancy Reagan's first months in the White House, she was tagged as a conspicuous consumer who was more interested in $200,000 china and designer dresses than in social causes.

Whether she attended a ladies' tea or an antidrug event, people often seemed focused on Mrs. Reagan's physical appearance, from her cosmetics to her Adolfos. But, he said, "I know the only way to deal with criticism is to be present and respond. I think (yesterday's) session should not be taken that the matter is settled. They were not there to defend themselves." American Physical Society officials said that both Pons and Fleischmann were invited to attend the annual spring meeting but declined.

Also at the press conference was Steven Jones of Brigham Young University in Utah, who conducted a less controversial cold-fusion experiment that shows evidence of the process "at a very low level," he said. Jones obliquely criticized the Utah researchers, for releasing their results at a press conference before they had been published. "There is that pressure, and sometimes it can be quite strong," he said. "I think there are some important lessons here." And Rafelski expressed a hope for sanity in the cold-fusion debate tha has raged for six weeks. "I think it would be much better for the field if the attention would diminish," he said.

"(It) is preventing us from proceeding in our usual manner." A meeting of the Electrochemical Society Sunday through May 12 in Los Angeles is widely expected to give chemists an opportunity to counter the vocal physicists. be. "Well, I think I'm a fraud," she joked in a telephone interview Monday. "I've always been the same." In her first 100 days, she dished out food at a homeless shelter, held the hand of a little boy who said no white lady had ever touched him before, read to minority toddlers at the Library of Congress, kissed an AIDS baby and hugged an AIDS-infected adult, sent for drug czar Bill Bennett so she could offer to help, and opened her home to hundreds of disadvantaged people who would underscore her special concerns. "It's been wonderful," she said.

"You can't believe I have really loved every minute of it. Of course, I have always been one to think that you should love your life." And for a woman who never much cottoned to the spotlight, her aides says she has become particularly skilled at directing the glow to suit her own objectives. "I think it has been an opportunity," Mrs. Bush said, adding that she doesn't make a "calculated effort to put the focus on anything. "I don't know that those things are going to generate attention.

California Institute of Technology team said could be explained by errors in data interpretation and measurement, including incorrect thermometer placement. "We believe we've identified serious errors; we think the experiments are wrong," Cal Tech physicist Steven Koonin said. And Walter Meyerhoff, a professor of physics at Stanford University, presented this light-hearted verse at Tuesday's press conference: Tens of millions of dollars are at stake Dear Sister and Brother Because some scientists put a thermometer At one place and not another Asked to raise their hands if they considered the Utah claim of cold fusion false, all but one of the seven physicists on the panel responded. Even the sole holdout, physicist Johann Rafelski of the, University of Arizona, Tucson, said that the credibility of the Utah researchers was "dented. They should have provided us with information" to assist attempts to duplicate the experiment.

By Washington Post WASHINGTON, D.C. Just days after First Lady Barbara Bush moved into the White House, she summoned her staff to the living quarters to lay out a simple plan of action. "I want to do something every single day," an aide says she told them. "Let's try to do some good every day it's time to get serious." Barbara Bush might have exceeded her own goal were it not for an unexpected and welcome hitch: The volume of mail generated from each of her 40 solo events was so 'overwhelming, she has said, that at times she felt forced to slow down in order to catch up. In the past 100 days, the first lady has received 35,000 pieces of mail.

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