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...Science is the outgrowth of questions about the world: it's about why some things are smooth, rough and hard, and others melt," Layzer continues. "The way it is taught today turns off many creative people who are best equipped to be serious students of science...

Author: By Philip M. Rubin, | Title: David Layzer: Teaching Science Through Prose or Poetry, But Not Equations | 2/9/1991 | See Source »

Opponents of the freeze organized a brief rally outside city hall. Approximately 15 middle-aged besuited professionals, sporting "melt the freeze" buttons and carrying signs, participated in the demonstration...

Author: By Julian E. Barnes, | Title: City Tables Environmental Ordinance Business, Residents Clash Over Law | 11/20/1990 | See Source »

This is the shape-shifting landscape of addict and alcoholic. The two terms mean in essence the same thing: a powerless dependence upon one drug or another, whether the chemical is legal or illegal. Here boundaries blur and melt. "Responsible" adults -- fathers, mothers, bankers, Senators, solid citizens -- become dangerous aliens. Their cars fly across the median in the middle of the night. The high began as a creamy indulgence and ends as a squalid necessity, a fix. The soul begins to die. It passes over into realms of the surreal and savage, into moral blackout and passivity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: In The Land of Barry and the Pilots | 11/12/1990 | See Source »

...birth of the universe, so the theory goes, all matter was condensed into a package much smaller than an electron. This package had a nearly-infinite amount of energy--enough to cause the four forces to "melt" into one symmetric force. Measuring, probing and just thinking about the present universe, scientists hope to learn about the newborn universe, and how one force somehow became four in the intervening 15 or 20 billion years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: String Theorists Hunt for the `Theory of Everything' | 10/19/1990 | See Source »

...might want to let our soldiers sit in military installments in the desert and eat M&M's (that won't melt in the desert) for a while until the crisis cools down. If the situation escalates into war, the soldiers will be there to fight. But after normalcy is returned to the region, it will not be fair to turn the Saudi Arabian desert into a criss-crossed network of AFN television lines and American schools...

Author: By Beth L. Pinsker, | Title: Getting Too Comfy in the Desert | 10/17/1990 | See Source »

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