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Top quarks emerged from the primordial radiation "around a thousandth of a billionth of a second after the Big Bang," estimates University of Michigan theorist Gordon Kane. But as the early universe expanded and cooled, they vanished. Their fleeting existence left behind a fundamental puzzle that physicists are struggling to...
In the female lead of Yum-Yum, Rachel Storch's vocals are masterful. Her voice is clear and sweet and among the strongest in the show. She does not deliver her lines with the hilarity of, for example, Sneeringer as Pooh-Bah, who haughtily claims a direct line of descent...
Yet R.E.M. is too resourceful a band to bog down totally in such melancholy musings. Proving that a so-called alternative band can keep its edge after conquering the musical mainstream, Automatic for the People manages to dodge predictability without ever sounding aimless or unfocused. Buoyed by a lush weave...
The food, which Miller dubs "modern Western," is steeped in the same pioneering spirit. His eclectic menu ranges from neo-Tex-Mex tidbits like chipotle chile breadsticks to fresh-baked buckwheat cinnamon bread, smoked duck and buffalo jerky. "Smoking is a natural by-product of heat," Miller says, launching into...
THE LISTING of the great millennia always reminds me of the cross-sections of soil levels that we learned in science class. Topsoil, sedentary soil, shale coal, diamonds, oil, primordial sludge, fire brimstone the boogey monster and the other side of the globe.