Word: miles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...short, says Douglas Scalapino, of the University of California at Santa Barbara, recent developments are something like the breaking of the four- minute mile. Beforehand, it had been considered nearly impossible; afterward, "you could go to any track meet and some guy was breaking it." The activity, says Cava, "is more exciting than a supernova. Astrophysicists can watch it, but when it happens, it happens and it's gone. In superconductivity, the events are still going on, and the physics is just beginning to pour...
...lacked only racing's crowning credit. McCarron felt blessed to be on any horse in any race. Last October he broke his leg four ways in a fearsome crack-up at Santa Anita, and when Alysheba commenced clipping Bet Twice's heels with three-sixteenths of a mile to go, the rider looked sure to take another fall. "I thought I was gone," he said. Somehow McCarron was still astride and suddenly even ahead. "C'mon, wire," he prayed. "Quick...
...Begone, came home with a bloody nose and a heavy heart in an ambulance. A field horse, Avies Copy, finished third. The best or the most stubborn of them will reconnoiter next week at the Preakness. Then Belmont Specialist Woody Stephens should have someone fresh waiting for the last mile and a half. The season has started...
When President Reagan formally endorsed the superconducting supercollider (SSC) last January, it seemed likely that the $4.4 billion, 53-mile- circumferen ce particle accelerator would be completed on schedule in 1996. But the recent breakthroughs in superconductivity have raised some questions about the 10,000 powerful magnets needed to keep streams of protons on course as they speed around the huge ring...
...sincerity of that proposal is on trial. Last week the Soviets submitted a draft treaty at arms talks in Geneva that calls for the elimination of both American and Soviet medium-range Euromissiles in the 600- to-3,000-mile range. In addition, Moscow offered to destroy all its shorter- range Euromissiles in the 300-to-600-mile range. The Europeans thus find themselves being asked to accept a deal that gives them more than they bargained for. "We said we wanted cuts," mused a top NATO official. "Now we've been invited to put our missiles where our mouths...