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Coleman and Wilder are running nearly even, but Wilder has wider support among women voters. Polls indicate that abortion is the decisive factor in the disparity. "I trust the women of Virginia," Wilder taunted his opponent in a televised debate last week. "That's the difference between you and I...
Pro-choice groups have pumped time and money into campaigns against Coleman and Courter. Last week NARAL previewed a pair of anti-Coleman commercials it has produced for the Virginia race. In New Jersey the group expects to spend $100,000 on Florio's behalf. The organization also plans to...
No, they are not animal, vegetable and mineral. In fact, all the matter most people are familiar with can be subsumed within one family of particles. This family includes the common electron, which hovers around the nucleus of the atom; the "up" and "down" varieties of quarks, now known to...
The members of the other two families are even more elusive. Some have never been directly observed, and the others have only been spotted fleetingly in cosmic rays or high-energy particle accelerators. The second family consists of so-called "charmed" and "strange" quarks, muons and muon neutrinos. The third...
These odds were calculated by observing the behavior of the Z particle, the heaviest known unit of matter. Zs are produced in the collision of smaller particles that have been accelerated to nearly the speed of light. By creating large numbers of Z particles, physicists were able to establish the...