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Supersymmetric particles could also give a boost to superstring theory, one of the hottest ideas in theoretical physics. Superstring theory holds that every particle is really a vibrating loop of stringlike material that exists in ten-dimensional space (most of these dimensions are confined to such a small scale that we never notice them). Whether the string takes on the role of a quark or an electron or a Higgs boson depends simply on how it vibrates...
...tried filmmaking as an extension of his painting. Lynch's first work was a "film sculpture," a one-minute animated loop in which six people get sick over and over while their heads catch on fire. A painter who saw it commissioned Lynch to make another animated film. Lynch bought a camera and spent two months shooting before he realized the camera was broken. "It was one long piece of blurred film," he says. "But it was the weirdest thing; I wasn't one bit depressed...
...Committee of Deans, an advisory board appointed by Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence, is the inner loop of FAS. And while its actions and influence may remain outside the public eye, this low-profile group continues to maintain a high-profile membership...
...There's no leadership from the governor. He's been out of the loop for six months," said Rep. John H. Flood (D-Canton), chair of the House Taxation Committee...
...some scenes, let some voices tell their stories. And if, up close, childhood impressions fade, enough incongruities and paradoxes survive to concentrate the mind. Like the newspapers that urge "bitter struggle" against "bourgeois liberalism" while trumpeting the pleasures of disco dancing on the same page. Like the never ending loop of music in the lobby of a hotel in Sichuan province that alternates between a Rod Stewart oldie (Sailing) and a socialist goody (Without the Communist Party There Would Be No New China). Like the young man break-dancing to a blaring Madonna album amid a few hundred elderly...