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...this week, and planning to hit American shores shortly after, is the Sound of Music Sing-a-Long-a, where moviegoers arrive in nun outfits, in lederhosen or as the whole family Von Trapp. Singing along (the songs are subtitled) is encouraged. Dancing, booing Nazis and whistling are optional. Foam nuns are available in the lobby...
...wooden fort-thingy is starting to grow moldy. But I don't watch the playground. What I watch is the hordes of crazy screaming kids who stream into the playground every weekday morning and afternoon during recess. Mostly, they just run around and try to hit each other with foam balls. For them, life is good...
...freewheeling. Harvard life, by contrast, is one scheduled meeting after another. We meet for class, meet for clubs, meet for lunch, meet to practice and meet to talk about our meetings. Bring a PalmPilot to the playground and all the other kids will turn to you to throw their foam balls...
NAME: TOM ("RIGHT STUFF") WOLFE OCCUPATION: Writer who may wear crochet BEST PUNCH: "Why does he sputter and foam so? Because he, like Updike and Mailer, has panicked. All three have seen the handwriting on the wall, and it reads, A Man in Full...
Replacing particles with strings eliminated at least one problem that had bedeviled scientists trying to meld general relativity and quantum mechanics. This difficulty arose because space lacks smoothness below subatomic scales. When distances become unimaginably small, space bubbles and churns frenetically, an effect sometimes referred to as quantum foam. Pointlike particles, including the graviton, are likely to be tossed about by quantum foam, like Lilliputian boats to which ripples in the ocean loom as large waves. Strings, by contrast, are miniature ocean liners whose greater size lets them span many waves at once, making them impervious to such disturbances...