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...element is born. An international team of scientists based in Germany today revealed the creation of an as-yet unnamed element by bombarding lead and nickel atoms in an accelerator -- bringing the periodic table's total to 110. The creation of this new man-made element took ten years and became a competitive joust between the group based in Germany -- which eventually won -- and American scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, working with Russian colleagues at a research center in Dubna, Russia. Now comes the hard part: finding an appropriate name.Post your opinion on theScience & Technologybulletin board...
...There was an element of high school dance in it because it was in a gym and if you looked around you saw bleachers." But, she added, "everyone seemed to be enjoying themselves...
Polls have shown that blacks are more sympathetic to Simpson than whites; eight members of the jury are black. Because a key element of the prosecution's case rests on complex scientific evidence related to blood, prosecutors had hoped for an educated jury; only two jurors attended college. Older, retired people are usually more willing to convict; most jurors are in their 20s and 30s. The single bright spot for prosecutors perhaps -- a critical part of their strategy -- lies in the gender breakdown. Eight jurors are women and one of those, a black woman, has worked with domestic violence victims...
...film treats the moment of birth as a dark triumph of reason and science. The monster, laid out on a surgery table, moves slowly under his clinical white sheets, just as the doctor hopes. This strips away the physical element of the birth as unnecessary in the face of governing science. This is in strong contrast with the child of "Spirit of the Beehive," in which the creative act is a spiritual calling to the monster to enter the world of the child The birth is perpetrated by the monster himself at her invitation and on her imagination...
Women need to realize that they are a constitutive element of the culture, acting upon and within it. Why should they allow norms of mothering (artificial, shifting cultural constructs) to be dictated to them...