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...Italian physicist who comes on to Andermans even as she attains fusion with Goldfarb. Between trysts, she and the Nobelist are pursuing a subatomic particle whose existence might validate Einstein's theory. Or something like that. As Donatella explains it, "Whenever a semi-simple non-abelian norm group is broken and leaves a residual subgroup, monopoles will be produced as topologically stable solutions to the theory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot Fusion: Omega Minor | 12/5/2007 | See Source »

...quite. The pomegranates I enjoyed were shipped as part of a USAID-funded Alternative Livelihoods program. The idea, explains Loren Stoddard, head of USAID's Alternative Development and Agriculture program in Afghanistan, is to restore "some of the old trade routes that were broken." Since the Taliban regime fell six years ago, USAID has helped plant more than a million pomegranate trees, Stoddard claims, and this year Afghan farmers harvested between 33,000 and 44,000 tons (30,000 and 40,000 metric tons) of the fruit, of which some 1,102 tons (1,000 metric tons) were flown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pomegranates: A Fruitful Trade | 12/5/2007 | See Source »

...You’re no stranger to issues of scandal. With the Stephen Gobie incident, after you had come out in 1987, only to have this story broken by the Washington Times two years later, you basically fessed up to everything you did in the situation. We all know how incredibly lurid the Capitol Hill community can be. What did Gobie and D.C. teach you about backstabbing...

Author: By Frances Jin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 15 Q's with Barney Frank | 12/5/2007 | See Source »

...When I came here in 1970 I was more or less destitute. I came here from a broken marriage, broken body as well from a [airplane] crash, you know, just broken,” Mitchell said. “How do you sell things without a license? I chose books because of the First Amendment.” Mitchell’s first big sale of a suitcase full of rare used books bought him his store...

Author: By Ana P. Gantman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Bookstores Galore | 12/5/2007 | See Source »

...Yeah, you know, not flush the toilet after you pee. It’s kind of a waste of water.” Habits developed over years of training at home—the automatic reach for the flusher after every bathroom trip—are now being broken. Some mornings I wake up to a bright yellow puddle down the hallway. It twinkles in the bathroom light, almost smiling. I frown. When I hear a visitor give a startled shout, I have to tell her, it’s not that we’re disgusting frat boys, unable...

Author: By Samuel P. Jacobs | Title: The Thorny Side of Going Green | 12/4/2007 | See Source »

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