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When objects grow cooler, what is actually, if invisibly, happening is that their atoms are moving slower. At a certain point--about -460[degrees]F--the motion of all matter would stop. Such utter atomic stillness is not possible, since the colder atoms become, the more they draw warmth from anything in the vicinity--often from one another. In 1995, however, a team led by physicists Carl Wieman and Eric Cornell of the University of Colorado at Boulder used lasers and evaporation to achieve something known as a Bose-Einstein condensate, a supercold gas in which atoms overlap and begin...
...Fast action photography is no great trick anymore. What's harder to pin down are the slower but more decisive motions that make the great arcs of history. Over the past decade the photographer Sebastião Salgado traveled across five continents to observe the great relocations of people caused by war, famine and the whiplashings of the global economy. In Africa, Asia and the Balkans, war produced millions of refugees. In Asia and Latin America the simple but still desperate search for work moved millions to the packed cities. The pictures on this and the following pages, from...
...Christie's surrender of information bought it conditional amnesty, but Sotheby's, slower off the mark, will get none. "The idea of the program is to get the first guy to break," notes Albert A. Foer, president of the American Antitrust Institute in Washington. Although Christie's may be off the hook, "Sotheby's could be required to pay a penalty. Some people could go to jail...
...stage decor, lead singer Mry Mary looked like he had decided to throw on a tatty T-shirt before coming on stage. It took the drum 'n' bass beats of the single "Heart Go Boom" to finally get the crowd going, and even then, the transition into a slower song killed the momentum. Another single, "Stop the Rock," came next, but the rock was already stopped: like a weak bomb, the crowd bounced slowly but never exploded. The poker-faced security people might have smiled inside, faced as they were with the incongruous sight of an equally poker-faced front...
...music, it was spirited, tuneful and just about varied enough to prevent restlessness. Braid-bearded Jeremy managed to create enough sound with a single guitar to produce faithful replications of the radio hits, including the slower-tempo "Miserable," their latest single. The group did away with "My Own Worst Enemy" midway through the playlist, and, to give credit to the other songs, it didn't stand out as a particularly superior track...