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...Crimson boasts seven upperclassman returning from last year's squad. In additional to Boyum, Jackson and Brog, Jim Lubowitz, Peter Dinoen, Mike Mack and David Segal are expected to form a solid nucleus for the coming season. Last year's national collegiate champ, Kenton Jernigan (older brother of Kevin), is taking the first semester...
...ancient Greeks needed only their powerful intellects and imaginations to postulate atoms as the basic building blocks of matter. Today, more than ever before, such exploration requires complicated machines like Fermilab's Tevatron. By pummeling the nucleus, the atom's central mass, with protons or other subatomic particles, physicists can literally tear apart the fabric of matter, somewhat like peeling layers from an onion. Every peel, however, requires increasingly powerful and costlier machines. As Stanford Physicist Wolfgang Panofsky notes, "The smaller the objects, the bigger the microscope we must use to see them...
...European Organization for Nuclear Research), located outside Geneva, have discovered a group of new particles that helps confirm what physicists call the standard model. This divides matter into two basic types of particles: quarks, which are the building blocks of protons, neutrons and other "heavy" components of the atomic nucleus; and leptons, exemplified by "light" particles like the electron...
...standard model also postulates that the universe is controlled by four basic forces: gravity, the glue that holds the cosmos together; electromagnetism, which keeps electrons from breaking away from the rest of the atom; the strong force, which holds together the atomic nucleus; and the weak force, which controls the gradual disintegration of some nuclei, the process at work in radioactivity...
During a Mass in memory of Kolbe, John Paul spoke of the plight of Poland's private farmers. He praised church-related agricultural groups that had once served as the nucleus of Rural Solidarity for striving "to restore to your work in the fields its own special dignity." Then John Paul counseled the crowd "to overcome evil with good." Said he: "It is the program of the gospel, a program that is difficult but possible, a program that cannot be dispensed with...