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...physics, the exclusion principle holds that an electron within an atom, once in orbit, excludes any other particle from occupying exactly the same orbit. That may be as apt a metaphor as any for the unique odyssey of the collection of atoms that was Andrei Sakharov. The life of the dissident Russian physicist - acclaimed as both the creator of the Soviet H-bomb and the conscience of his country - spanned the years from Lenin to Gorbachev, the rise and fall of Soviet communism and the triumph of physics. Who but Sakharov could so personify such an age? Now, more than...
Coupled with the fact that conventional equations can describe only the simplest natural phenomena (you can write an equation for the orbit of a single planet around the sun, for example, but not for an entire solar system, let alone a living cell), the success of his simple programs made Wolfram suspect that science has been heading in the wrong direction for the past 300 years or so. Instead of trying to write complicated equations for everything, he says, scientists should have been searching instead for the cellular automata that correspond to what they are observing...
Since the College has no ties to Pi Eta or Sigma Chi, Illingworth and other Harvard administrators are staying out of the matter. “They’re all outside my orbit although they involve Harvard students,” he says. “I don’t have jurisdiction over the Catholic Church either. As much as I’d like to make things better, I don’t have the power to effect that...
...Hector, a wirehaired terrier rescued by manager Nancy Morgan from the surrounding desert. (The lobby fire pit, done over as a tile fountain, is Hector's unofficial water bowl.) Better yet, stay in town--at L'Horizon, where Marilyn Monroe always took Room 3C, or at Herbert Burns' 1957 Orbit In, which has been meticulously restored and impeccably decorated with furnishings by mid-century icons Charles and Ray Eames, Eero Saarinen and George Nelson. It's hard to imagine another hotel whose devotion to style is so intense. The guest lounge is named after a local architect (the ubiquitous Frey...
...Orbit In is pretty close to Modernist heaven. As you sip your complimentary Orbitini, listen to Mambo with Tjader on the poolside stereo and watch the sun slip behind the mountains, it's easy to forget that much of Palm Springs' architectural heritage is still at risk. Despite victories like the saving of Frey's Fire House No. 1, new threats arise every day. Tramway Gas--the building that started the preservation movement in Palm Springs and most recently housed a gallery--abruptly closed its doors last month and has been sold. Although it has the protection of historic-site...