HOUSTON, oil capital of Texas, is not exactly New York City, and there was still a year remaining before the first decennial of that incredible rock concert of physics, the 1987 March Meeting of the American Physical Society, christened "another Woodstock" by the late Michael Schluter of AT&T Bell Labs. Why then, asked several journalists in attendance at a meeting in Texas earlier this year, were we jumping the gun in both time and location? Well, actually the timing was spot on.
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