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...tried to find equivalents for it, not only in his shapes but also in the substance of his paint. He worked increasingly in vaporous, quick washes thinned to watercolor transparency -- stains of extraordinary beauty that establish a constant field of light against which the passages of denser paint and linear drawing create, by subtle inflection, the illusion of solidity. These are, in part, Matisse's response to the textiles and ceramics he observed, in which - the color was dyed or glazed rather than opaquely painted...
...power to go back 15 billion years in time has touched off one of the most heated competitions in the history of science, a race that pits Europe's LEP against U.S. entries led by the powerful Tevatron at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) near Chicago and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) in California. Huge teams of physicists at the rival centers are working day and night to discover the next new particle and to explain the behavior of those already found. In recent years, each lab has had its share of triumphs...
CAPTION: Stanford Linear Collider...
SLAC. Burton Richter, director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, is the maverick of particle physics. While others have recently concentrated on circular accelerators, he has touted the merits of linear models. His latest machine shoots streams of electrons and positrons down a straightaway and then loops them through two semicircular sections onto a collision course. Linear accelerators cannot produce nearly as many collisions as do circular models of comparable power, but Richter claims that the noncircular approach can be an economical way to make discoveries in the vanguard of physics...
...much of the undergraduate physics curriculum is stuffed with quantum physics and obscure mathematics and geared towards producing future particle physicists. A much more relevant field that has witnessed a huge explosion of interest in the last five years is non-linear systems, as described in James Gleick's best-selling book Chaos. Along with fractals, applications are found everywhere from heartbeat rhythm to earthquakes. Yet the Physics Department doesn't offer a single course in the area to undergraduates...