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Tiffauges is the patron saint of his own travels. The war takes him out of France, with its overripe cynicism, to Germany, the northern lands celebrated in Greek mythology as a realm of clear light and cool reason. The fact that Germany is now controlled by such barbarians as Hitler and Goring rounds out the Hyperborean myth by offering an inevitable opposite...
...realm of high-energy physics, muons can be an outright nuisance. These tiny atomic fragments, somewhat heavier than the electrons they resemble, are produced when protons collide inside the bowels of large atom smashers. They live for only a fraction of a second, but are able to pass unscathed through heavy barriers or shields. Thus, unless carefully controlled, they often show up where they are not wanted, and can play havoc with experiments. Now a scientist at the AEC's Argonne National Laboratory outside Chicago plans to put the troublesome particles to work. In an effort to take some...
...such a realm, as a character in this latest Tracy novel reflects, "the declared friend was the secret foe. What looked like perfect peace was in truth an endless, confused shindy about nothing of any importance...
...formula gets outside the realm of low-income families," Malin said...
...valley of delicate beauty and perfect serenity set against a backdrop of soaring Tibetan mountains. To Movie Producer Ross Hunter, Shangri-La is Burbank, Calif. The mountain range is only 600 ft. long (not bad by studio standards) and made of plaster; in Hollywood, serenity is a realm that lies only beyond the fourth martini or the third joint. Otherwise, Hunter's Shangri-La-the set for a new musical version of Hilton's novel-has it all over the novel, as well as Frank Capra's 1937 black-and-white Ronald Colman tearjerker...