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...after perceiving what Fischbach calls "funny results" in two contemporary experiments, one involving gravity tests in a deep mine, the other the behavior of subatomic particles. "We felt the results could be explained with an additional force," says Fischbach, "so we went back to the data published by Baron Roland von Eötvös in Hungary in 1922 to see if we could find evidence." Eötvös had indirectly measured the speeds at which objects fall and found small discrepancies, which he attributed to limitations in his equipment. Re-examining the data, the team decided that the aberrations were...
...since 2001, Nadal won four straight tournaments on Europe's clay-court circuit this year to shoot from 51st to 3rd in the world rankings, behind Federer and Hewitt. On his 19th birthday, he ousted Federer, his idol, in a four setter in the semis at Roland Garros, spawning a rivalry with John McEnroe-Bjorn Borg potential. Nadal even apologized to the Swiss superstar for beating him. "He's already mentally tougher than Federer," says seven-time Grand Slam champion Mats Wilander. "That's scary...
Gould’s wife, Rhonda Roland Shearer, now claims that the doctors—an oncologist at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI) and two radiologists at Brigham and Women’s Hospital—overlooked a centimeter-wide lesion in the upper lobe of his lung that later became cancerous...
Levitt, along with Roland G. Fryer, an economist at Harvard’s Society of Fellows, examined large data sets to find that a baby’s name has less of an influence on his life prospects than earlier studies suggested. Sure, Temptress turned out to be a bit of a tramp, but Loser Williams grew up to be far more successful than his older brother Winner...
...venture a prediction. U.S. officials went only so far as to say that the Israeli nod toward an international forum for the peace process is "a substantive development." Said a U.S. official: "It means we can begin to talk seriously." --By George Russell. Reported by John Borrell/Cairo and Roland Flamini with Peres