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...assembled. Since the patinated color may break down under strong sunlight outdoors, Graves also uses fired-enamel colors on some pieces. Accident contributes its share here: because the thickness of the bronze casting varies in an unpredictable way, and hence the heat of the metal and the rate of fusion of the enamel vary as well, the enamel colors run and waver into one another like wet watercolor, somewhat blurring the identity of the object they cover. This makes the enamel pieces slightly more abstract, fractionally less decipherable, than the patinated ones. Graves, whose SoHo studio contains...
Thankfully, the Senate Tuesday rejected the proposed amendment by a margin of 11--with moderate Republicans tipping the balance. School and prayer are, quite simply, an unacceptable fusion of church and state, as the Senate correctly resolved once again. But the closeness of the vote and the determination of those supporting the measure warrant a close look at the politics of school prayer...
...atomic bomb, is a 40-year-old company town (pop. 17,500). The company is the U.S. Government, and the main business is nuclear weapons. The lab's Bradbury Science Museum has all kinds of hands-on exhibits explaining peacetime uses of magnetically confined plasma, inertial fusion and lasers. But weapons are the cornerstone, accounting for more than half of this year's $517 million budget. Scarcely anyone would live on the hill if it were not for weapons...
...death and birth of stars." By the 1950s, astronomers realized that most of the universe's 90-odd elements, or types of atoms, had been "cooked" not at the moment of the universe's explosive birth but inside the hot furnaces of subsequently formed stars in fusion processes similar to those that occur when a hydrogen bomb detonates. But as they gazed out upon the heavens with their telescopes and spectrometers, astronomers found that the composition of stars varied enormously, containing different atoms and in different proportions...
...Fowler, together with three colleagues, Sir Fred Hoyle and Margaret and Geoffrey Burbidge, provided the answer. In exquisite detail, they showed how the stellar furnaces forge progressively heavier atoms out of lighter ones. They provided a number of pathways for the fusion reactions, including one in which a giant star eventually explodes in a super nova and unleashes forces powerful enough to create the heaviest known naturally occurring elements such as uranium. Fowler subsequently refined these ideas so he could predict exactly what ele ments would be found in a particular type of star. These predictions have been al most...