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...recent films include Orange County (2002) and Shrek (2001). Well, I’m an actor and actors tend to learn a little bit about a lot of things but not a lot about anything. In an oddball career, I have played a butcher, a rugby player, a nuclear physicist, a boxer, and loads of other parts. So I can tell you a little bit about making sausages, playing rugby, building an A-bomb, and knocking someone out cold. But I can’t actually do any of those things. What don’t I know? Just about...
...think my commitment to these areas of research is certainly not going anywhere,” she said. “I don’t see myself running off and becoming a physicist...
...Physicist Harris Goldberg wants to revolutionize the $1 billion tire-sealant business, but until that goal is realized, he will settle for tennis balls. InMat, Goldberg's seven-employee company in Hillsborough, N.J., regularly ships to Wilson Sporting Goods 55-gal. drums filled with an environmentally safe liquid containing 1-nm-thick sheets of clay. When the material coats the inside of a tennis ball, it traps air far more effectively than standard rubber alone and doubles the life of the ball. Wilson's Double Core, which made its debut more than a year ago, sells at a premium...
Such examples show that the future "is more a matter of choice than destiny," as Brazilian physicist Jose Goldemberg, the chairman of a recent United Nations energy study, put it. On the windy border of Washington and Oregon, citizen groups are already making a choice. They have pressured utilities to invest in green energy, and a federal tax credit has made it more profitable. "It's the right thing to do," says Vito Giarrusso, manager of the Stateline wind farm, "to help our little piece of the earth." --With reporting by Toko Sekiguchi/Tokyo
...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 12 years after...