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Indeed, the theory could explain not only the large-scale structure of the universe but also the origin of galaxies and other puzzling celestial phenomena. It combines some of the most advanced ideas in astrophysics and elementary-particle physics, and joins the independent research of Ostriker and Physicist Edward Witten. The unifying element: the cosmic strings -- bizarre, hypothetical entities that are thinner than an atomic nucleus, as long as the universe is wide, and so dense that a mile-long segment would weigh as much as the earth...
...viruses are ten to 100 times as small as the typical bacterium, and in fact far smaller than the wavelength of visible light. That makes them too diminutive to be seen with the most powerful optical microscopes. But in 1931 the invention of the electron microscope -- for which German Physicist Ernst Ruska finally won the Nobel Prize this year -- broke the light barrier. The new instrument -- along with a technique called X-ray crystallography (in which X rays are diffracted through crystallized virus particles to reveal their molecular structure) -- at last provided a view of the bizarre and startling world...
...Only two people in the world, maybe three, believe in SDI" said Hoffman, who is also the Director for the Center for European studies. He said only the president, the secretary of defense, and Shakespearean actor and physicist Edward Teller had faith in the 'Star Wars' program. "Not even the scientists working on it believe it will work...
Wiesel's 30 books have ranged from biblical studies to an examination of the plight of Soviet Jews. Indeed, last week he exhorted Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev to allow five Soviet Jews, as well as Dissident Physicist Andrei Sakharov, to emigrate, and this week he is traveling to Moscow to help organize a conference on non-Jewish victims of Nazism. Wiesel has also worked to help Cambodian refugees, the Miskito Indians in Nicaragua and starving children in Africa...
...citizens who have publicly protested the Kremlin's brutal rule. This week we return again to the subject with a lengthy excerpt from a soon-to-bepublished memoir by Elena Bonner, who lives in exile in the closed city of Gorky with her husband, Andrei Sakharov, the Nobel-prizewinning physicist and spiritual leader of the Soviet dissident movement. Bonner's son-in-law electrified the Frankfurt Book Fair last week with the news that despite repeated Soviet efforts to destroy Sakharov's own memoirs, they have been preserved, are now in the West, and will eventually also be published...