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...mysteries (for example, how matter in the universe acquires mass) by providing hard data on subatomic matter from which cosmologists and theoretical physicists can extrapolate. But they have less exalted reasons to hope for the LHC's success: After a glut of funding for particle physics in the '80s promised the building of several particle accelerators of equivalent power to the LHC, recent funding cuts mean the CERN experiment is now the only game in town. If it fails to provide results, physicists worry they will have to struggle to justify new, even more powerful machines, not to mention...
...power, Family was not just close to home - it was home. Then - in the wake of the late '80s Writers Guild of America strike that pushed desperate networks to learn to produce the cheap 'n easy reality fare - came 1992's The Real World. Like almost all of its emulators, from The Osbournes to the Paris Hilton-Nicole Richie vehicle The Simple Life to The Biggest Loser: Couples, The Real World explored what happened when people "stopped being polite ... and started getting real" ... but not too real. Slickly created and cast by pros, TRW placed seven 18-to-25-year...
...drug addiction, art, terrorism and loneliness set in a future when each year is known by the name of its corporate sponsor (e.g., the Year of the Trial-Size Dove Bar). Infinite Jest was the quintessence of 1990s literary maximalism, and it became instant required reading. Enough with those '80s party-boy writers! Here was a novelist with the industrial-strength intellectual chops to theorize even our resolutely anti-intellectual age. Wallace became a reluctant literary pinup, with his stubbly outsize chin and his shoulder-length hair. He was America's No. 1 literary seed...
...British in Palestine before the founding of Israel, and are thought to be the first couple to marry in the new Israeli state in 1948. Livni served as a lieutenant in the Israeli army and later joined Mossad, working for the intelligence service for several years in the early '80s. She left the service to became a real estate lawyer before dipping into politics in 1999. Following her election to the Knesset, she became a protege of Ariel Sharon, and gained a reputation for being modest and humorless - but always on the straight and narrow. She's often referred...
...older women and the urban and Latino audiences who have helped make Scarface an enduring cult hit. To do so, they're marketing with a campaign that emphasizes the actors' histories. In one TV ad McGurk refers to as the "prestige spot," De Niro and Pacino's '70s and '80s films are listed off. McGurk says: "It's meant to remind audiences who they were...