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...insecurity, paying for school [and] economic problems, have spurred people to get involved," adds Kelvin E. Pranis, youth section field coordinator for the Democratic Socialists of America...
Superconducting materials, when cooled to below 100 degrees Kelvin, can carry current without any resistance. This means that once a current is being driven around a circuit of superconducting material, it no longer requires a voltage source to continue its motion...
...colleagues first stunned the research community six years ago by showing that a compound containing the exotic element yttrium could become a superconductor at 98 degrees on the Kelvin scale favored by physicists (that's a not-so-balmy -283 degreesF). That record, broken repeatedly, is now as outdated as the 19-foot pole vault, and last month the contest heated up again. First Chu announced in the journal Nature that a mercury-based compound could superconduct at 153 degreesK (-184 degreesF), a startling 20 degrees higher than the old standard. He got that result by subjecting the material...
Throughout the ceremony messages and slides were flashed onstage, including one memorable shot of a woman examining a man's armpit and a quote attributed to a so-called Professor Bruno Klondhauer: "I like my soda flat, like my women." Klondhauer is credited by the Journal with inventing Kelvin, the official fragrance of the ceremony...
Some survivors transform themselves from victims to activists. Until Patti and Kelvin Barton of Everett, Wash., lobbied their state legislature three years ago to enact a new law, it was almost impossible for anyone to bring civil charges of childhood sexual abuse after the victim turned 21. Because many incest survivors, like Patti, do not even realize their childhood experiences until they are well into adulthood, they had few legal options against their abusers. The Washington law now allows people three years to bring suit after the discovery of either the abuse or the injury it caused. A dozen other...