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Safer Inc., Newton, Mass.: Aeneas Venture owns part of this manufacturer of environmentally safe pesticides. But even this undeniably politically correct investment is not without risk--in July, 1989, the company was fined more than $50,000 by the Environmental Protection Agency for misleading advertising...
...sitting politely at my friend's Passover Seder in quaint Newton, Mass., when the inevitable question arose: "Where are you from...
Clauser's work pointed out once again that the rules of quantum mechanics do not mesh well with the laws of Newton and Einstein. But most physicists do not see the apparent disparity to be a major practical problem. Classical laws work perfectly well in explaining phenomena in the visible world -- the motion of a planet or the trajectory of a curveball -- and quantum theory does just as well when restricted to describing subatomic events like the flight of an electron...
Paralyzed by a degenerative nerve disease, Hawking is one of the world's most accomplished physicists, renowned for his breakthroughs in the study of gravitation and cosmology. Yet the man who holds the prestigious Cambridge University professorship once occupied by Sir Isaac Newton was overwhelmed by the sheer size and complexity of the machine before him. Joked Hawking: "This reminds me of one of those James Bond movies, where some mad scientist is plotting to take over the world...
...NOTEBOOK: Weather permitting, the Crimson will take on Northeastern in a doubleheader today at Soldiers Field and B.C. tomorrow in Newton...Durand led the team with a .389 batting average for the trip...Konjoyan hit .350 and produced the team's only dinger...