Word: proudest
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...easy to understand why even Hawking was awed: he was looking at just a portion of the largest scientific instrument ever built. Known as the large electron-positron collider, this new particle accelerator is the centerpiece of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research and one of Europe's proudest achievements. LEP is a mammoth particle racetrack residing in a ring- shaped tunnel 27 km (16.8 miles) in circumference and an average of 110 meters (360 ft.) underground. The machine contains 330,000 cubic meters (431,640 cu. yds.) of concrete and holds some 60,000 tons of hardware, including...
...admits that he finds it hard to concentrate these days. No doubt Peruvian reality rivals even the most artful and engaging of his novels. In Conversations in the Cathedral (1969) and The War at the End of the World (1984), the two books of which he is proudest, Vargas Llosa explored fanaticism, apocalypse and corruption. If he is elected President, Vargas Llosa will have to contend more directly with these themes, which exist in ample supply in contemporary Peru...