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...Gore's campaign-research team was combing through Bill Bradley's Senate record last summer, it hit upon a nugget of political gold. But not until a few weeks ago did Gore messagemeister Carter Eskew decide the time had come to share that bit of history with the voters of Iowa. "Let me introduce a friend of mine to you," Gore purred to Bradley as a man in dungarees stood up in the audience at their first debate in the state. "Why did you vote against the disaster relief for Chris Petersen when he and thousands of other farmers here...
...this greatest of all puzzles. One major reason, observes Columbia University physicist Brian Greene, is that string theory developed backward. "In most theories, physicists first see an overarching idea and then put equations to it." In string theory, says Greene, "we're still trying to figure out the central nugget of truth...
...GRAND PRIX, SPAIN. Two villages, led by their mayor and a star, compete, in costume, in games such as retrieving a fake nugget from an obstacle course without being tossed by a young bull. (Discovery...
...those things you don't even share with your best friends -- how much you earn. Well, in California that nugget of personal information could soon be up for sale to banks, mortgage lenders, car dealers and other potential creditors -- by none other than the government. The program, authorized by a little-noticed state law passed last summer, and headlined by the Los Angeles Times on Thursday, could eventually rake $15 million into state coffers. "When the news leaked out," reports TIME Los Angeles correspondent Dave Jackson, "it caused an immediate backlash here." Proponents of the program point out that individuals...
...still have 2 a.m club closings. And it seems record companies trying to bring dance music to the States can't avoid thinking in terms of rock music and keep trying to create stars instead of putting more emphasis on individual songs. Whatever happened to the single, that ephemeral nugget of sound? Billboard now allows "singles" to hit the charts even when record companies don't release them for sale, purely based on radio play...