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Superconducting Supercollider Big Science took a big hit when Congress finally pulled the plug on the Superconducting Supercollider, the 54-mile-around atom smasher that was supposed to be the world's largest and most sophisticated scientific instrument but is now just a $2 billion hole in the ground. The SSC was doomed when its projected cost escalated from $5 billion to more than $11 billion, making it look less like Big Science and more like Big Bloated Bureaucracy...
...Marotta built a Plexiglass box, five feet tall and one foot wide, with a pyramidal top. He brought it to the cemetery over the weekend, during a snowstorm (flakes obscure the structure in many of the photos). He then hollowed out the ground in front of it in a hole of the exact same dimensions, “like a shallow grave.” Finally, he filled the totem with the soil that had been scooped out. The result is “this weird, bizarrely black obelisk in the middle of the woods,” whose glass...
...Sports and cultural exchanges are multiplying as well-in August, a top South Korean pop star performed in Pyongyang and a group of women pro-golfers from the South played a tournament on a North Korean course where official legend holds that the Dear Leader once shot five hole-in-ones in a single round. Every day, hundreds of South Koreans visit a tourism enclave on North Korea's scenic east coast, and new tourism ventures are in the works...
...comprehensive theory of poverty," which Farmer elaborates on in books that are surprisingly angry for so gentle a man. In Pathologies of Power (2003), his most recent, he argues that the only antidote for the "structural violence" that keeps the poor too sick to climb out of the hole they are in is to treat health care as the most basic human right and do whatever it takes to deliver...
...departure from the game. But after taping his head, Craig returned in the second half to lead the team’s attempt to fight off the odds.“Craig was a rock in the back,” Altchek said, “He has a hole in his head right now, and he came back and played really hard.”Despite the Crimson’s determination and overall good play, the Big Green was able to pounce on the under-manned team once again, this time with 2:20 left in the game...