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...last week the scientific equivalent of "thar she blows" echoed around the world. The news came from several hundred particle hunters working at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory near Chicago, who presented compelling evidence that not one but 12 top quarks had briefly surfaced inside a mammoth detector in their...
Delgado hit two mammoth home runs in his first two games at Sky-dome. One of them hit the Hard Rock Cafe beyond the outfield wall...
...make no mistake about it--the City of Roses can hold its own against the City of Angels, and Malibu and Mammoth both. Pasadena is more than a parade route--it's a Southern California hangout that somehow manages to be at once hip and historic...
...stirred, the "water" turns out - to be as sticky as molasses, clinging to a glass rod and forming long, hair- thin threads. "You get the feeling this is really different stuff," says Dr. Francis Collins in his molecular-biology laboratory at the National Institutes of Health. Collins heads a mammoth effort to catalog the library of biological data locked in those threads, a challenge he compares, not inaccurately, with splitting the atom or going to the moon...
This fascinating figure is the subject of a meticulously researched and elegantly written biography by Edmund White. Despite Genet's mammoth size and its tendency to wander from its subject, the book is never boring. White simply writes too well to let our attention stray. His sidetrips are always rewarding and his sense of his subject's life and literature compelling throughout...