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...electrically charged atomic nuclei -- a plasma -- has proved to be far more complex than anyone had suspected, and so has heating it. While the first rudimentary fusion reactors were a few feet across and weighed a ton or two, the Tokamak weighs hundreds of tons and fills a gymnasium-size room. A commercial reactor would be much bigger still and with current technology would cost hundreds of billions of dollars...
...lighting, sound, and setting. This skill is apparent from the movie's beginning--reuniting in 1977, post-Cultural Revolution China, the movie's two main characters, Cheng Dieyi(Leslie Cheung) and Duan Xiaolou (Zhang Fengyi) walk tentatively side by side into the bright light of a bare gymnasium, to be greeted by a single admirer rather than the thousands they once entertained. This make-shift stage, with its single spotlight, bears an eerie resemblance to the interrogation rooms of the Communists, giving the reunion an ominous feel that is heightened by the underlying music. When the flashbacks...
Provost Jerry R. Green--who last springadmitted that he thought it "a little bit strange"that he is not allowed to use the BusinessSchool's opulent new Shad Hall gymnasium--saysMcArthur is cooperating fully in implementingRudenstine's mission...
...Wednesday, workers gathered in the Longfellow School gymnasium will handcount all the number one votes on the ballots. By the end of the day, officials will be able to announce the top four of five "unofficial" finishers, who are assured of council seats...
Lewis, 27, the top scorer and captain of the Boston Celtics, suddenly dropped to the floor while shooting baskets at a gymnasium at Brandeis University in suburban Waltham, Massachusetts; he was pronounced dead at a hospital 2 1/2hours later. His collapse had been foreshadowed three months earlier, when he passed out during an April 29 playoff game against the Charlotte Hornets. Lewis checked in to Boston's New England Baptist Hospital. A "dream team" of 12 cardiologists assembled by the Celtics' physician, Arnold Scheller, made a diagnosis of cardiomyopathy, an abnormal stretching or thickening of the heart that can cause...