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Accelerators, one of the most important tools in physics today, help scientists determine the structure of atoms. A beam of protons are aimed around a rim of iron of up to several miles in circumference to collide with anti-proton matter flying in the opposite direction, resulting in a shower of subatomic particles...
...released." Mel Durslag, a Los Angeles historian for the Herald Examiner, recalled that similar worries were heard in 1958 when the Dodgers wanted to put home plate in the Coliseum's east end. A man from nearby Arcadia proposed floating a giant balloon over the west rim, thereby shading the batter's eyes, but then someone else thought of moving home plate. Deciding not to wait for any logical reversals, Atwood taped on a pair of sunglasses and beat World Record Holder Tom Petranoff, 306 ft. 7 in. to 278 ft. 8 in. "There...
...about a father and a son in a playground twelve years ago, in the spring, around noon. The boy was five. He had a basketball, which he dribbled off his toes half the time, and which he kept shooting at the hoop-underhand, both hands, straining to reach the rim. The father sat on a bench and watched. The boy kept at it. Then some bigger boys sauntered over, snatched the ball away and shot around, leaving the five-year-old watching...
...painted!" Hall cried. His coworkers, members of a U.S.-Guatemalan team that was hoping to unearth an undisturbed Mayan crypt, crowded to the rim of the pit. "We all wept and embraced," recalls Archaeologist George Stuart. "There was such a sense of incredible relief. It had been a gamble, and we'd been building up to that moment...
...tribes from across the country's rugged highlands and by tom-tom drums pounding out the joyful news of his arrival. Few of John Paul's foreign journeys have offered such a kaleidoscope of contrasts as the ten-day, 24,000-mile trek across the outer rim of Asia and the South Pacific that he completed at week's end. In South Korea, he assumed the role of pastor; in Thailand, he served as a diplomat; to the islands of the Pacific, he came primarily as a missionary...