After decades of bending atoms around giant rings and smashing them apart in search of the secrets of the universe, scientists at Cern, the European particle physics laboratory outside Geneva, are reviving a 1960s technology and going straight. Their latest ring, the 27km Large Hadron Collider (LHC), only got up to speed in March, yet physicists » Read More
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London, it seems, has not been kind to Yevgeny Chichvarkin. Once the enfant terrible of the Russian super-rich, the portly figure who trudges into the lobby of a posh Kensington hotel is a far cry from the legend. Until 18 months ago, he was one of the most successful businessmen in Russia – famous for » Read More
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IT IS going to take some time to sort out just what happened at this year's "Love Parade" and who is to blame. On July 24th 19 people died and more than 300 were injured at the annual festival of techno music, which took place this year in Duisburg, a city in Germany's Ruhr region. This » Read More
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The pressure on reporters and editors to find images that capture the public's attention inevitably means that significant but not easily illustrated stories are slighted. Other stories are simplified: 30 to 60 seconds of commentary does not allow for much depth. When war breaks out,however,pictures become very important. They have a you-are-there eyewitness impact that press » Read More
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They probably came about just to give children something to do. In the ancient world, as \s today, most boys played with some kinds of toys and mosl girls with another. In societies where social roles are rigidly determined, boys pattern theii play after the activities of their fathers and girls after the tasks of their » Read More
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She met him at a dance. Pretty too, and young. Said he worked in a restaurant, but she can't remember which one. Geraldo. That's all. Green pants and Saturday shirt. Geraldo. That's what he told her. And how was she to know she'd be the last one to see him alive. An accident, don't you know. » Read More
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After the violent earthquake that shook Los Angeles in 1994, earthquake scientists had good news to report: The damage and death toll could have been much worse. More than 60 people died in this earthquake. By comparison, an earthquake of similar intensity that shook America in 1988 claimed 25,000 victims. Injuries and deaths were relatively less in » Read More
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The fitness movement that began in the late 1960s and early 1970s centered around aerobic exercise ( W1HSI I Millions of individuals became engaged in a variety of aerobic activities, and literally thousands of health spas developed around the country to capitalize( ^f ij Jon this emerging interest in fitness, particularly aerobic dancing for females. » Read More
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It fastens its attention upon those physical characteristics and industrial techniques, those conventions and values, which distinguish one community from all the others that belong to a different tradition. The distinguishing mark of anthropology among the social sciences is that it includes, for serious study, other societies than our own. For its purposes any social regulation » Read More
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The re-election campaign for Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) seems more than willing to carry the J.D. "Huckster" Hayworth angle of attack -- which was spawned after it was revealed that Hayworth had served as a spokesman for an infomercial advertising federal loans -- right into the first debate Friday and perhaps on to the » Read More
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