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Last week, at the annual meeting of the American Physical Society in Washington, D.C., scientists learned that the search for the elusive monopole may have paid off. A paper submitted to Physical Review Letters by Blas Cabrera, 35, an assistant professor of physics at Stanford University, reports an "event" that Cabrera thinks may have been caused by a monopole. If Cabrera is correct, his discovery could validate the various "grand unification theories," which postulate the existence of superheavy monopoles and hold that three natural forces-electro-magnetism, radioactivity and nuclear bonding-are manifestations of a single grand force. Monopoles might...
...Sometimes Morris is just too blasé," complains Trainer Martwick of his charge. "When some big Huskies came to the kennel, Morris wouldn't get out of the way-he's oblivious to danger...
...ideological platter like a dropped soufflé. Candidates seem to have no shared opinions, no established rules of fair play. Nor do they seem to want any." Correspondent Sandra Burton interviewed government officials and French sociologists to assess the impact of the new administration and was struck by the blasé way most Frenchmen greeted the Socialist victory in the parliament. Says Burton: "The only turmoil in Paris on election night was the traffic jam caused by Parisians returning from sunny weekends in the country...
...billion early Thursday, and then dropped another $1 billion that day alone. But even at the late Thursday price of a bit more than $10, it would still have been worth more than $2 billion, assuming they could sell the metal without pushing the market even lower. Says one blas Dallas commodities broker: "From my standpoint, this is no surprise. The Hunts have made or lost $1 billion on more than one occasion...
...compact and need no extra light; court rules limit their number and location. Perhaps just as important, people have become accustomed to the pervasiveness of TV. Studies in several states show little evidence that cameras affect jurors or witnesses. At the Bundy trial last week two jurors were blasé enough to fall asleep-on-camera...