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Professor of Physics Howard M. Georgi '68, chair of the physics department, began work in the mid-1970s on the SU(5) theory. This theory attempts to bring together and to refine two previous theories on the relationship between three of these four forces--weak force, strong force, and electromagnetic force. The fourth force, gravity, is believed to be a derivation of the weak and strong forces...
...serious damage because they were built on higher ground. The trouble is, says Arthur Storey, executive director of the Harris County Flood Control District, "regulations look at worst-case scenarios, but those are always exceeded by nature's storms." And hundreds of thousands of other structures erected before the mid-1970s are not covered by the rules and are vulnerable...
That vision of a democratic Cambodia, alas, is fraught with peril. Chief fear is that the Khmer Rouge, the rebel faction that ruled the country with a brutal hand in the mid-1970s, may try once again to seize power...
...past, it was the agency's directorate of operations that tended to draw public scrutiny and occasional dismay. For example, the last time television audiences were treated to a lengthy official probe of the CIA was in the mid-1970s, when committees on Capitol Hill exposed a variety of bizarre plots to "destabilize" pro-Moscow regimes and "terminate with extreme prejudice" leftists and revolutionaries. But even when American citizens objected to specific capers or methods, few challenged the need for covert action...
Matlock says her work is motivated in part by experiences she had in Paris, while she was studying at the L'Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts in the mid-1970s. That stay exposed her to people who lived on the fringes of society and introduced her to the complexity of race, gender and politics, Matlock says...