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Whether it was just a minor rumble or a major tremor on the political Richter scale, last week's vote for the upper house of Japan's parliament was certainly a shock to the Liberal Democratic Party, which has ruled the country for 34 years. In the most devastating setback in its history, the L.D.P. claimed only 36 of the 126 seats up for grabs, while the underdog Japan Socialist Party took 46. Declared exultant J.S.P. leader Takako Doi: "I truly felt the mountains moving...
...year, when the number of Z 0s produced is expected to reach 2,000, the Stanford scientists think they could have the Z 0's life expectancy pinned down. But by that time the LEP may have beaten them to the goal. "I had hoped," acknowledges Burton Richter, the Stanford center's director, "that we would be in the shape we are now in a year ago. If a miracle had happened and we'd come on two years ago, then we'd have scooped up a lot of Z 0 physics." Now he and his colleagues can only hope...
Many experts think that is unlikely. Richter bet on a new approach to accelerator design, sending the positrons and electrons down a two-mile-long straight track, then spinning them out in opposing semicircles before colliding them. The CERN machine is more conventional and thus more likely to work from the start. The positrons and electrons in the LEP are made to circle repeatedly in opposite directions through the tunnel, with new particles added periodically to the stream. In a given period of time, the LEP is expected to produce hundreds of times as many Z 0s as the Stanford...
...Phil Esposito will apologize to all the Ranger fans in the world for shaking the team up two days before the playoffs began and then starting an untested rookie goaltender, Mike Richter, in the game in which the Rangers were eliminated from the playoffs...
...with a population of about 700,000. Armenian towns and cities such as Kirovakan, Stepanavan, and Leninakan were largely destroyed. Even Yerevan, 65 miles from the epicenter, suffered damage. The earthquake came in a minute-long tremor, followed four minutes later by a sharp aftershock, measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale. The timing could not have been worse: at midmorning, public buildings were full of people...