Word: matter
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Probing deeper into the secrets of the atom, Gell-Mann and Physicist George Zweig then independently conceived a trio of basic building blocks out of which all the other particles -and, indeed, all matter-could be constructed. With his usual literary flair, Gell-Mann named these imaginary particles "quarks" (from James Joyce's cryptic line in Finnegans Wake: "Three quarks for Muster Mark!"). Gell-Mann cautioned that quarks might not exist outside his equations, but an Australian researcher recently reported finding them among the debris of atmospheric atoms broken up by cosmic rays (TIME, Sept. 12). Even if quarks...
...Colorado Psychiatrists Brandt F. Steele and Carl B. Pollock discovered one characteristic all these parents had in common. As children, they had been battered themselves, either physically or emotionally: "All had experienced a sense of intense, pervasive, continuous demand from their parents, a sense of constant parental criticism. No matter what the patient as a child tried to do, it was not enough, it was not right, it was at the wrong time, it bothered the parents, it would disgrace the parents in the eyes of the world...
...going to make your 100 pages feel like Playboy's 300. I agree that your nudes look more real but I'm not sure yet whether I like that. Also, I was a little disturbed by some of your editorial matter. Like, do you really believe that Timothy Leary "might just have a chance of winning his campaign for the governorship of California"? But enough of heady political analysis. What really shook me up was your apparent stress on corporal punishment. ("Her eyes sparkled. 'We are in a birchwood. Perhaps you wish to birch...
...editorial matter, let us quote Brooklyn-born but much-traveled Guccione again: "What Americans think is kinky is right on target in Britain." This doesn't mean we'll run as much sadomasochistic stuff here as we do there. As we shake down, we'll tailor our U.S. edition more to American tastes. For Guccione, if nothing else, is a learner. Why, just the other day he didn't hesitate to ask a dining companion what eggs Benedict were. -Penthouse...
...matter what the strike settlement, it will set a pattern for future labor negotiations as major contracts expire. The confrontations will involve railroads in December, shipbuilding and trucking in March, and meat packing and autos in September...