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...China's love for things Western and of the new freedom to make money in imaginative ways. One evening a young man watched as several players began a game on his table. Leaning on a cue stick and nodding at the scene, he observed wryly, "This is the Fifth Modernization." SHENZHEN...
...Science The universe, it seems, is filled with bubbles. Is there a fifth force of nature? Voyager finds a Uranian moon...
Will that musty and elegiac sense of innocence pass away when Ne Win does? Probably not. In 1981 the general handed over the presidency, and nominal leadership of the country, to a like-minded sexagenarian, General San Yu; last August, at the Fifth Party Congress, the 18-man Central Executive Committee all but enshrined San Yu as Ne Win's heir apparent by creating the new position of deputy party chairman for him. That suggests much of the same. Moreover, adds a foreign diplomat, "Nobody has made a decision in this country for so long except Ne Win that nobody...
...Fischbach is proved right, his hypothetical force, which he calls hypercharge, would be the fifth known basic force. (Four forces are known to exist: gravity; electromagnetism; the strong force, which binds the atomic nucleus; and the weak force, which is responsible for certain types of radioactivity.) Hypercharge, Fischbach reports in Physical Review Letters, is an extremely weak repulsive force that acts between objects no more than about 600 feet apart and varies in strength from element to element. It is strongest in iron and weakest in hydrogen. Thus, the physicists contend, if an iron ball and, say, a feather were...
...Second in this year's voting, four votes below the 319 needed, was Billy Williams, hard-hitting outfielder for the Chicago Cubs. But Yankee Slugger Roger Maris, whose 61 homers in 1961 broke Babe Ruth's immortal record, died last month while ballots were being cast and came in fifth with...