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Many great minds - Democritus, Isaac Newton, James Clerk Maxwell, Albert Einstein - took giant steps toward bringing the universe's lost unity out of hiding. In 1964, Peter Higgs, a shy scientist in Edinburgh, added his name to that list by coming up with an ingenious theory that gave scientists the tools to explain how two classes of particles, which now appear to be different, were once one and the same. His theory proposes the existence of a single particle responsible for imparting mass to all things - a speck so precious it has come to be known as the "God particle...
...shot was pretty important and I made it.” Shore shot a 73 on day one and a 70 on day two and his total of 143 tied him for the best individual finish at +3. Harvard’s next best individual performance was delivered by Peter Singh who shot 147 (73-74). Shuman finished at 149 (74-75), Danny Mayer 150 (77-73), John Christensen 151 (81-70), Timmy Wu 152 (75-77), Nick Moseley 153 (76-77). Every player finished in the top half of the field. “The course places a premium...
...successful 1976 Senate campaign of Pennsylvania Congressman John Heinz that gave Garin enough of a bug for politics that he decided to defer going to law school. It was also where he met pollster Peter Hart, who hired him two years later and made him president of Hart Research Associates in 1984. And law school? "I think I'm on my 35th deferral," Garin says with a laugh...
...than for suspense, in Topkapi. The gang comprises not the standard tough guys but con artistes on a lark, to steal a jewel-encrusted scimitar from a hall in the Topkapi museum. Maximilian Schell leads a troupe of some of the major muggers of international cinema: Mercouri, Akim Tamiroff, Peter Ustinov (who won an Oscar), Titos Vandis and Robert Morley. But the more valuable member is the muscular Gilles Segal, as the acrobat whose job is to be lowered by rope into the hall from a high window, then remove the case, nick the scimitar and replace the case...
...particularly long assignment, as the Cardinal planned to return to his private studies in Germany after the conclusion of the papacy of the ailing John Paul II. Of course, fate had other plans, and when Ratzinger became Benedict XVI, Gnswein moved with him across St. Peter's Square to the office next to the new pontiff in the Apostolic Palace...