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...light - can cut through the sticky Higgs field without picking up mass. Others get bogged down and become heavy; that is the process that creates tangible matter. "The Higgs gives everything in the universe its mass," says David Francis, a physicist on the ATLAS experiment. Pointing at CERN's grand geological amphitheater of the Jura and the Alps. "None of that is possible without the Higgs...
Everybody has a story about discovering design and the enormous impact it can have on one's life?whether it's the grand gesture of an architectural masterpiece in an urban landscape, like Herzog & de Meuron's new National Stadium in Beijing, or the daily pleasure rendered by a more pedestrian product, like Harry Allen's new first-aid kit for Johnson & Johnson. My first experience with great design dates back to the early 1970s when my parents would buy stuff at a store called Design Research on Manhattan's 57th Street. What I remember most is the Marimekko fabrics...
...crystal clear to the country that PNU is extremely reluctant to honor the accord in the first place," ODM Secretary-General Anyang Nyongo said in a statement. Nyongo said Kibaki has "demonstrated his contempt for and reluctance in forming a grand coalition government as the constitution demands and the people of Kenya expect...
...Mahdi Army's now defunct cease-fire if attacks by government forces continued. And his response to a demand by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki that he disband his militia or face exclusion from the political process was typically ambiguous: Sadr said he would put the matter to Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani in Najaf, and disband his army if Sistani, the most powerful Shi'ite religious authority in Iraq, ordered him to do so. That may simply have been a maneuver for sympathy on the Shi'ite street; Sistani has previously declined to be drawn on the matter of Sadr...
...Campaign officials expect Garin to work on bringing consistency to a message that has been too focused on the daily give-and-take between their candidate and Barack Obama. "Where exactly was the grand strategy?" one grumbled when asked about Penn's tenure. "He had one playbook." A source close to the campaign said Garin has been a welcome addition and a big morale booster. "He's got that gentle manner and everyone feels much better," the adviser said. "But at this point, I'm not sure how much he can do" to dig the struggling campaign...