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...life futilely trying to unify two of nature's basic forces: gravity, the glue that holds the universe together, and electromagnetism, which governs such familiar processes as fire, chemical reactions, even human metabolism. But there are two other less well-known agencies at work within the nucleus of the atom: the so-called strong force, which binds the nucleus' protons and neutrons, and the weak force, which shows its hand in the disintegration, or "decay," of certain nuclei, like those of uranium 235. Post-Einstein theorists in the late 1960s succeeded in finding a unity between electromagnetism...
...really been looking forward to this year," O'Regan says. "We had the entire nucleus from last year's squad back, and we felt pretty confident. But then we had another real bad start. We weren't creating any offense and I was a big reason I wasn't playing well. But recently we've had some big wins and as we head into the Beanpot both the team and myself are playing with a great deal of confidence...
...Castelli and Ileana Sonnabend downtown in SoHo; uptown, at the Museum of Modern Art, a set of collages from the China journey is on display. They are all pendants to a larger project, the Rauschenberg Overseas Cultural Interchange (ROCI), whereby he intends to travel and exhibit a changing nucleus of works in some 20 countries, while working on new projects with local artists and craftsmen. The initial incarnation of the ROCI show is planned as a 150-piece retrospective that will include some of the 491 collages he made at the world's oldest paper mill, still operating...
...largest textile producers, but by the 1930s slow decline quickened into bankruptcy and industrial flight. By the mid-'70s once humming "Spindle City" had turned into a town too depressed even to tear down its boarded-up mills. Luckily, it so happened that those buildings were the nucleus of Lowell's renaissance...
Coach Horn and Keane also attributes the team's success this year to a large nucleus of veteran seniors who helped skipper the team to last year's number-three ranking...