Word: quests
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...none of the current generation of accelerators are big enough or powerful enough to re-create the very earliest fractions of a second after the Big Bang, where answers to the most intriguing mysteries are thought to lie. So U.S. physicists have embarked on a bold quest: the building of a colossal collider that will dwarf today's accelerators. Called the superconducting supercollider, it will have a tunnel that will circle for 87 km (54 miles) * under the cotton and cattle country surrounding Waxahachie, Texas. Expected to be completed around the year 2000, the SSC will cost $7 billion...
Anyone able to take particle physics beyond the Standard Model will automatically win prizes, prestige and added power in the profession. The quest has attracted some of the most driven personalities in science. The leaders, including Ting, CERN director Carlo Rubbia and Stanford's Burton Richter, are known for their relentless ambition, feisty competitiveness and monumental egos. All have already won Nobel Prizes, but that seems only to have increased their desire for greater achievements. In the rush to get results, they push their staffs mercilessly and are furious -- at least in private -- whenever they come in second...
...retreat into silence also hampered the immigrants' quest for political influence. "All the things that are required in Western politics go against Asian culture," says Judy Chu, mayor pro tempore of Monterey Park. Asian Americans turn out at the voting booth even less frequently than whites or blacks: a 1986 study of Southern California voters showed that only 30% of eligible Asian voters registered, compared with 80% of whites...
...16th century Chinese comic novel Journey to the West, a motley group of pilgrims, at the end of a magical, sometimes terrifying quest, arrive at the Western Paradise of Buddha to receive sacred books imparting enlightenment. To their chagrin, they discover that in order to secure their prize, they must grease the palms of Buddha's disciples. Buddha himself is rather condescending. Paradise has turned out to be less than perfect and more than a little disconcerting. What was it they set out to find, and why is it yet to be found? Even as their numbers and their influence...
...Saddam Hussein is certain to continue his quest for the A-bomb. -- The Soviet military's unhappiness is underscored by the crisis in Lithuania. -- Black-on-black violence diminishes the stature of Nelson Mandela. -- Mario Vargas Llosa "risks everything" and runs for President of Peru...