Word: decays
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Physicists have already discovered some 200 elementary particles, usually by smashing apart nuclei of atoms in huge accelerators. Most of the particles live for only a tiny fraction of a second before they decay into more stable atomic components Like electrons. Until now, all of these particles have occupied predictable places in what physicists jocularly call their subnuclear "zoo." The puzzling new discovery is a total misfit...
...Graduate Economics Club recommendation that students be included in the hiring process is the first clear demand, supported by official evidence of a department in decay, that students be recognized not as irresponsible transients or radical ogres, but as individuals with the right and the capacity to positively affect the decisions determining their education and four to six years of their lives. It was the students who pointed out the failings of the Economics Department, not the Faculty. And it was the students whom the visiting committee report agreed with...
...unarticulated line "adds to the decay and the transitional nature of the community," Herold said. "Our aim is to keep the neighborhood stabilized and get people...
...people encouraged to believe that brave acts and sensible policies guarantee happy endings. As everyone is now aware, all those freestanding, suburban one-family houses (an American dream come true) were livable only if the owners had cars, and so helped bring on nightmarish traffic jams, the decay of the cities and the decline of public transport. Solberg also considers such a thing as the G.I. Bill a marvelous benefit to youth and society...
...anticipate events (E.S.P.) or to effect physical changes by sheer will power (psychokinesis). He had electrodes implanted in the brains of rats in a zone where stimulation gave the animals intense pleasure. The stimuli were delivered at random intervals by a computer that in turn was keyed to the decay of atoms in a sample of radioactive strontium 90. Without any outside influence, the system would stimulate the rats' pleasure zones 50% of the time. If the rats could anticipate the computer by E.S.P. or influence the decay of the radioactive source by psychokinesis, their pleasure score would exceed...