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...Nuclear Research (CERN) laboratory in Geneva will switch on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) - a $6 billion particle accelerator that will send beams of protons careening around a 17-mile underground ring, crash them into one another to re-create the immediate aftereffects of the Big Bang, and then monitor the debris in the hopes of learning more about the origins and workings of the universe. Next week marks a low-power run of the circuit, and scientists hope to start smashing atoms at full power by the end of the month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Collider Triggers End-of-World Fears | 9/4/2008 | See Source »

...which brought it closer to Baton Rouge than was predicted. Winds were gusting at more than 70 m.p.h. in the metro Baton Rouge area, where top local, state and federal officials - including Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal, Senator David Vitter and Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff - were hunkered down to monitor the storm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Orleans: The Ones Who Stayed | 9/2/2008 | See Source »

...White House is trying not to take the scheduling slight to heart, even though a satellite address had once seemed a necessity only if Bush had to stay in the Gulf region to monitor the storm's aftermath. Perino said Bush still has good reason to stay put in Washington: behind Gustav, other storms are lurking. "We have Tropical Storm Hanna, and Ike that's following behind that, and possibly another one behind that," Perino said at the briefing today. "And so it's appropriate that the President be able to be here at the White House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: McCain Keeps Bush at a Safe Distance | 9/2/2008 | See Source »

...specter of the potentially devastating storm caused President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney to decide to skip the Republican National Convention, which was supposed to begin Monday in St. Paul, Minn. The White House announced that Bush was heading to Texas Monday to monitor emergency response efforts, and Republican officials have already postponed most of Monday's convention activities. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff headed to the region Sunday and planned to stay for the duration of the storm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Orleans Braces for Gustav | 8/31/2008 | See Source »

...life far away from Washington intrigue: no cameras, no questions, with missions to Nicaragua, Kuwait, Vietnam, Afghanistan. This past Easter, she was touring minefields in Kosovo; she was in Rwanda in July and was about to fly to Georgia to meet with soldiers wounded in the Russian invasion and monitor refugee relief efforts. McCain adviser Nicolle Wallace previews the partnership the campaign will roll out in Minneapolis: "She's on the phone with the World Food Program; he's on the phone with [Georgian President Mikheil] Saakashvili," she says. "It was a great picture of what they'll be like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mrs. Maverick | 8/28/2008 | See Source »

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