Icy Saga Ripe For Revival

The Atom Station By Halldor Laxness Harvill, 180 pp, $32.95

A Discovery To Change The World If Only We Knew How

It is one of only four in the world, it took six years to build and its worth millions. Now scientists at Australia's Quantum-Atom Optics centre, opened in Canberra yesterday, only have to discover a use for their new atom laser.