Word: atomizer
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American confidence is more than a state of mind; it is a muscle, a westward-ho-ing, atom-splitting, moon-landing muscle, and Osama bin Laden's autumn ambush, designed to break it, seemed only to make it stronger. The markets reopened within a week after Sept. 11, swooned and then revived, and even as the fires still burned downtown and the soldiers headed off to war, more Americans said they believed the country was on the right track back in October than felt that way last week. Is it possible we could do to ourselves what our worst enemies...
...minister, I cannot understand the debate over cloning and stem-cell research. Is it simple arrogance that makes one believe that life can be created by scientists? Be it an atom, a cell or a fetus, it was created by God. This fear that we will create life to destroy life is hilarious. Personally, I would rather the embryo, with no knowledge of this world and the pain it brings, be used to help millions than for a million babies to be born into a life of hatred, heartache, oppression, pain and violence. For in the end, it comes right...
...physics, the exclusion principle holds that an electron within an atom, once in orbit, excludes any other particle from occupying exactly the same orbit. That may be as apt a metaphor as any for the unique odyssey of the collection of atoms that was Andrei Sakharov. The life of the dissident Russian physicist - acclaimed as both the creator of the Soviet H-bomb and the conscience of his country - spanned the years from Lenin to Gorbachev, the rise and fall of Soviet communism and the triumph of physics. Who but Sakharov could so personify such an age? Now, more than...
...What is the smallest: an atom, a neutron, a particle or my ownership share of the Red Sox?” he quipped...
Conant had taken a leave of absence from Harvard during the Second World War to personally contribute to J. Robert Oppenheimer’s ’26 Manhattan Project in Los Alamos, N.M., which led to the development of the atom bomb...