Word: mammothly
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...Hawking was awed: he was looking at just a portion of the largest scientific instrument ever built. Known as the large electron-positron collider, this new particle accelerator is the centerpiece of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research and one of Europe's proudest achievements. LEP is a mammoth particle racetrack residing in a ring- shaped tunnel 27 km (16.8 miles) in circumference and an average of 110 meters (360 ft.) underground. The machine contains 330,000 cubic meters (431,640 cu. yds.) of concrete and holds some 60,000 tons of hardware, including nearly 5,000 electromagnets, four...
Armed with machines that cost hundreds of millions of dollars and span miles, researchers have forged a largely coherent model of the universe's basic building blocks. Now they are clamoring for the $7 billion-to-$8 billion superconducting supercollider, a mammoth device that may complete the picture -- or torpedo it. -- Can physicists ever fully understand the nature of matter...
...lawmakers blame different people for a lack of initiative on the tax package, most on Beacon Hill seem to admit that some form of tax increase will be passed before the end of the fiscal year in late June. If not to save the state from this year's mammoth deficit, they say, new taxes are necessary to prevent an even worse situation next year...
University officials said yesterday they were shocked and disappointed by Spence's decision to leave, particularly as Harvard plans to embark on a mammoth multi-billion dollar fundraising drive in which the FAS dean was to play a central role...
...also literally been the lifeblood of Bishop. For years, North Inyo County Hospital has relied on Greyhound to bring fresh supplies of blood from a Reno blood bank on weekends, when the medical facility is kept busy with victims of ski and traffic accidents from Mammoth Mountain, 40 miles away. Partly because of these special needs, the company had provided service to Bishop from Reno at the beginning of the strike. But that lifeline was severed last week, when Greyhound canceled the daily run for economic reasons. "If you've got 60 passengers for Sacramento and only a couple...