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...goal of the new project is to find out how many forces there are in nature," Burton Richter, a Nobel laureate and the Stanford professor who designed the project, said recently...
...some theorists today believe that electricity and radioactivity may be different manifestations of the same force. If this is so, the collider would show it Richter said...
...ring as far away as Charleston, S.C., stopped pendulum clocks in Washington, D.C., and shook buildings in New York City. No seismographs existed at the time, but detailed descriptions by survivors indicate that the intensities of the three quakes would have ranged between 7.3 and 7.5 on the Richter scale. By comparison, the big quake that destroyed San Francisco in 1906 was 8.3, and the 1964 quake in Alaska registered...
ROME--An earthquake here measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale killed five persons and left more than 1000 homeless yesterday...
...only other thing worth mentioning about Dracula--aside from the terrible Latex, greasepaint and collodion jobs on a few of the vampires, and the turn-of-the century, tradition vs. modernism theme Badham and Richter apparently tried to concoct in the visuals--is the great love scene that stopped the show on Broadway. As Dracula and Lucy begin to embrace, their figures dissolve into multi-colored silhouettes and recede into the distance, whereupon a bunch of shapely limbs wind and unwind to John Williams' less than austere music. The whole thing is modeled on the title sequences in the Bond...