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DIED. PHILIP MORRISON, 89, protégé of J. Robert Oppenheimer and one of the youngest physicists assigned to the Manhattan Project; in Cambridge, Mass. A dynamic, legendary M.I.T. professor also known as the host and writer of the inventive 1987 PBS science series The Ring of Truth, Morrison helped assemble the first atom bomb with his own hands and later accompanied it in a car to the test site near Alamogordo, N.M., riding next to the bomb's core in the backseat. But after witnessing the bomb's impact in Nagasaki, Japan--"There was just one enormous, flat, rust...
...Iljin gangs are typically part extortion ring and part social club, according to Jong, who interviewed more than 200 teens over five years to prepare his independent study of the phenomenon. Senior gang members use younger iljin to intimidate still younger children into giving them money to finance dates and rowdy, beer-fueled parties. Jong, who teaches at Jeon Nong high school in Seoul, says gang members use the Internet to organize regional and even national networks. One favorite pastime: the so-called "fainting game," in which kids derive an oxygen-deprivation rush from strangling each other until they nearly...
...So Fonda is sorry for that photo? She should show it by donating the proceeds of her book to veterans' programs. Only then would her apology ring true...
Though he never went to school with any of them, Ashong has still become brothers with these boys, all of whom still ring him up for advice—about the BMF and about life...
Armed with such signposts, geologists have targeted several volcanoes that may erupt in the near future. More than 500 volcanoes are classified as active, most of them lying in the so-called Ring of Fire, a broad circle that more or less coincides with the boundaries of the Pacific, where oceanic plates are diving under continental plates. Of particular concern to scientists are some of the peaks in the Cascades, the mountain range that includes Mount St. Helens. The Mammoth Lakes ski-resort area in California is another area of potential volcanic activity...