Word: atomize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...article done by a single department of TIME. Writers and correspondents in Science, Medicine and Religion were proposing separate projects; Behavior had become a significant part of the field as well. Hence, this week's special section represents a collaboration among the four sections. Senior Editor Leon Jaroff (Atom No. 1 in the journalistic molecule) headed the task force. Science Writer Frederic Golden (2), drawing on material gathered by John by Sydnor Vanderschmidt (3), Alan Anderson (4) and John Wilhelm (5), traced the assault on the mysteries of molecular biology. Jere Donovan (6), assisted by Nina Lihn (7), devised...
Most scientists now agree that the universe began with the cataclysmic explosion of an extremely dense primordial atom, and that the billions of star-filled galaxies, including the Milky Way, are still rushing outward from the original big bang. The speed of that expansion, astronomers have determined, is decreasing-slowed by the gravitational pull of the galaxies upon each other. What cannot be explained, however, is that the calculated mass of the universe's galaxies is only about one-tenth the amount required to produce that rate of deceleration. Where is the missing mass...
...usually has some special significance. It may be a minor vignette or a brief comment on a major event; it may underscore the important or puncture the absurd. "The ideal item," says Nation Editor Jason McManus, "contains a moral, or a quality of fable, or the nucleus of some atom of the national mood...
Alexander Rodchenko, whose works include a chess table (in the Carpenter Center show at Harvard) and a spatial structure not unlike Bohr's model of the atom, is currently in a small exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. His were some of the first works constructed of actual movement; MOMA's show exhibits his later fascination with photography where he transformed even a simple stack of wood into a spatial statement...
...policies are nothing less than outright genocide. In response, Seaborg acknowledges the dangers of radiation, yet insists that the AEC's precautions have been more than adequate. Such a reply, however, may not be enough. Public anxiety over the real or imagined dangers of the atom was on the rise even before Gofman and Tamplin unleashed their polemic. One evidence of this is the proliferation of conservationist lawsuits attempting to block construction of nuclear plants in the U.S. Similar concern has also nearly turned under the AEC's Project Plowshare, which proposes to use nuclear devices for such...