Word: felted
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Thus began a session of the American Physical Society's annual meeting that was so turbulent, so emotional and so joyous that the prestigious journal Science felt compelled to describe it as a "happening." AT&T Bell Laboratories Physicist Michael Schluter went even further, calling it the "Woodstock of physics." Indeed, at times it resembled a rock concert more than a scientific conference. Three thousand physicists tried to jam themselves into less than half that number of seats set up in the ballroom; the rest either watched from outside on television monitors or, to the dismay of the local fire...
Both Jockey Chris McCarron, 32, and Trainer Jack Van Berg, 50, are accomplished men who lacked only racing's crowning credit. McCarron felt blessed to be on any horse in any race. Last October he broke his leg four ways in a fearsome crack-up at Santa Anita, and when Alysheba commenced clipping Bet Twice's heels with three-sixteenths of a mile to go, the rider looked sure to take another fall. "I thought I was gone," he said. Somehow McCarron was still astride and suddenly even ahead. "C'mon, wire," he prayed. "Quick...
...Alydar felt better too. Alysheba's renowned sire, the only horse ever to finish second in all of the Triple Crown races, stands at leafy Calumet not 50 feet from his old tormentor Affirmed. Guess whose sexual favors are worth $350,000 and who has trouble looking whom in the eye now. The bay colt Alysheba, 8-1 in the Derby, is an honest horse but has a hard time keeping to a straight course. In the Blue Grass Stakes nine days earlier, Alysheba finished first but was demoted for swerving in the stretch. Deep thinkers who drop...
...Nicaragua's five-year-old civil war. Linder's parents and two siblings had flown in from the U.S., honoring Linder's request to be buried in Nicaragua if he was killed. Shortly before his father David poured Oregon soil on the wooden casket, he said, "Benjamin felt he belonged here...
Several NAS members faulted Lang, 59, for violating the traditional probity of the academy's proceedings. Says Nobel Laureate Herbert Simon, professor of computer science and psychology at Carnegie-Mellon University (and a Huntington backer): "In my 20 years in the academy, I've never seen a member who felt it necessary to start such a public fracas." Since winning a postponement of Huntington's initial 1986 nomination, Lang has fired off three anti-Huntington mailings to the full membership. "Just imagine," says NAS Member Julian Wolpert, professor of geography at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International...