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...other large accelerators have been built to probe the nature of matter on a scale far smaller than that of the atom. The goal is to answer ancient and fundamental questions: What is the universe made of, and what are the forces that bind its parts together? These questions cannot be answered without an understanding of what happened in the Big Bang, the unimaginably hot and dense fireball that 15 billion years ago gave birth to the universe and all it contains...
...baseball begins without him for the first time in 28 years, Rose is switching from gambling to golf: he drives 500 balls a day and commutes from Florida to Cincinnati for gambling therapy. Results of his tax-evasion probe may come this month...
...Vietnam War is a popular subject these days. Hollywood (especially Oliver Stone) and the general public seem virtually obsessed with the war and its aftermath. Indeed, the entire Vietnam experience has been so painstakingly scrutinized lately that any further attempt to probe its horrors bears the onus of showing us something innovative. Unfortunately, the well-intentioned and well-executed Leverett House production of Strange Snow fails to offer insights fresh enough to shock us out of our complacency--and growing boredom--with the subject...
BOSTON--Two weeks after the Gardner Museum theft, investigators had little progress to report in the probe of the biggest art heist in history, and insurers disputed the museum's claim that it could not afford to insure the stolen works against theft...
...entertainment mogul and his wife are cut down by multiple shotgun blasts as they sit watching television and snacking on berries and cream in their Beverly Hills mansion. Their two handsome sons return home from an evening at the movies to discover the horribly mangled bodies. The police probe the possibility of a Mafia hit but find nothing. The boys inherit their parents' fortune, estimated at at least $14 million, and a $400,000 insurance policy. Seven months later, the scenario takes a shocking twist when police arrest the orphaned sons and charge them with committing the killings...