Word: accountants
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...began with her account of being raped during her third week at the College of William and Mary by a man she had been dating. The end of her presentation focused on the lessons she had learned and advice for both men and women...
...recognizable universe. Cold dark matter was another possibility ("cold," in physics jargon, means slow-moving; neutrinos, by contrast, are "hot"). Also known as wimps, for weakly interacting massive particles, these are purely hypothetical particles derived from speculative theories. They perform somewhat better in computer models, but WIMPS can't account for such newly discovered features of the cosmos as Great Walls, Great Voids and Great Attractors...
...true, the finding is of literally cosmic significance: there are so many neutrinos in the universe that they alone could account for some 20% of the dark matter that inflation theory requires. Just add in another 80% worth of WIMPS and you've got it, says Joel Primack of the University of California, Santa Cruz. With this recipe, Primack has used supercomputers to produce synthetic universes that look almost identical to the data gathered by real-life astronomical observers. But some theorists think Primack is grasping too quickly at a "discovery" that is still controversial...
...Sparks brings his story up to the present with a more perfunctory account of the events since Mandela's release, it becomes clear that he is an unabashed optimist about the future of his country. South Africa, he suggests, is a kind of laboratory for the future of race relations around the world. He predicts that the "unique balance of mutual dependency" that made apartheid unworkable will bind the nation together in a kind of multiethnic harmony. Like Mandela, Sparks believes that what unites black and white in South Africa is greater than what divides them...
...enough snooping by its American friends. Normally these cases are handled with diplomatic discretion. But the French government went public with its request that five CIA operatives allegedly caught gathering French economic and political secrets in Paris leave the country, after the French newspaper Le Monde published a detailed account of dirty tricks by the CIA's station chief in Paris, three of his case officers posing as American diplomats and a fourth officer operating under a business cover...