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...began to unlock the mysteries of the atom: Max Planck launched quantum physics by discovering that atoms emit bursts of radiation in packets. Also the mysteries of the mind: Sigmund Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams that year. Marconi was preparing to send radio signals across the Atlantic, the Wright Brothers went to Kitty Hawk to work on their gliders, and an unpromising student named Albert Einstein finally graduated, after some difficulty, from college that year. So much for the boneheaded prediction made the year before by Charles Duell, director of the U.S. Patent Office: "Everything that can be invented...
...reason general relativity broke down at the Big Bang was that it was not compatible with quantum theory, the other great conceptual revolution of the early 20th century. The first step toward quantum theory came in 1900, when Max Planck, working in Berlin, discovered that the radiation from a body that was glowing red hot could be explained if light came only in packets of a certain size, called quanta. It was as if radiation were packaged like sugar; you cannot buy an arbitrary amount of loose sugar in a supermarket but can only buy it in 1-lb. bags...
...MAX OUT YOUR ACCOUNT At tax time next spring, be sure to review your 1999 medical expenses. Self-employed individuals and employees of companies with 50 or fewer workers have until April 15 to make tax-free contributions to medical savings accounts, which can be used with high-deductible health plans to pay medical costs. "You want to make sure you've contributed the maximum allowable," says Jack Strayer of the National Center for Policy Analysis. The ceilings range from $2,250 for individuals to $4,500 for families...
STARRING: Ethan Hawke, Youki Kudoh, Rick Yune, Max von Sydow DIRECTOR: Scott Hicks OPENS: limited Dec. 22; wide...
Also elected yesterday were Dehn W.H. Gilmore '02, art editor; Lucy B. Ives '02, poetry editor; Max B. Hirsh '01, fiction editor; Kate M. Taylor '00, features editor; Parag Y. Shah '02, business manager; Kate F. Douglas '02, literary pegasus; George B. Debrigard '01, art pegasus; Joseph Turian '00, dionysus; Stephanie C. Stallings '02, dionysus; A. Haiwen Chu '01 and Debbie J. Lee '01, circulation managers; and Ezra D. Feldman '02, publicity relations manager...