Word: atomically
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...neutrino in 1930, he labeled his hypothetical particle "a frightful thing." The neutrino would neatly explain a tiny energy imbalance in certain nuclear reactions, but it would also be so ethereal that the average neutrino could zip through a trillion-mile-thick chunk of lead without hitting a single atom. Since the particles would presumably sail undetected through any measuring device, Pauli lamented, his clever idea could never be proved correct...
...selection of Rotblat and Pugwash, while something of a surprise, comes at a particularly opportune time. It is 50 years since atom bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing more than 200,000 people. And the French and Chinese governments continue to defy international protests by conducting nuclear tests. "One of the reasons for the prize is a sort of protest against testing of nuclear weapons, and nuclear arms in general," acknowledged committee chairman Francis Sejersted...
British nuclear physicist Joseph Rotblat and the anti-nuclear group he helped found jointly won the Nobel Peace Prize. Rotblat, who resigned from the Manhattan Project before it developed the first atom bomb, started the Pugwash Conference to work toward the eventual elimination of all nuclear weapons. Pugwash takes its name from the Nova Scotia fishing village where it was founded...
...Michael Cao faces a daunting task. His seventh-graders, most of whom speak little or no English, spend most of the day in mainstream classes. And then, in just 45 minutes, Cao must speed them through the baffling vocabulary they have encountered. Energy, gasoline, electron, molecule, dilute, bubble, wave, atom--all new words to be explained in Mandarin. And, for a slender youth in the front row, in Cantonese. In three years, under state rules, newcomers are to be fluent enough to graduate into all-day mainstream classes. In practice, few are-and schools are caught between researchers who decry...
...ARGUMENT OVER WHETHER USE OF the atom bombs, as opposed to a full-scale invasion of Japan, actually saved Japanese lives is completely irrelevant. After 3-1/2 years of war, President Truman's duty as Commander in Chief was very clear: to end the war quickly and save as many lives as possible . THOMAS E. TELL JR. Somerville, New Jersey Via America Online...