Word: smalleness
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...machine itself, prophylactically sealed against the elements; a cable; a plug. The last two components were tucked in niches in the plastic casing, which helped insulate the contents to protect against jarring. I tried prying open the casing to see if there was anything more. Nothing. Except a small, thin envelope with a little key that ... Sorry, that's from Alice in Wonderland. I'm getting my fantasies confused. (See "Do We Need the iPad? A TIME Review...
...local court postponed the third trial of a man accused of killing her, unknown gunmen shot dead Pedro Alcantara de Souza, another activist for land reform in Redencao. Police believe Souza was targeted because he works for the Federation of Family Farmers, a group that defends the rights of small producers and landowners in southern Para state. (From TIME's Archive: the destruction of the Amazon rainforest...
Souza, who sought the agrarian reform that would give small plots to the area's poor, was shot three or four times as he bicycled with his wife and her friend on Tuesday evening, said Loyana Nogueira da Silva, the police officer who was on duty when the case was called in. The three were on the edge of a temporary settlement of poor farmers, when an unidentified assailant or assailants approached him on a motorcycle and opened fire. Souza's wife and her friend had biked ahead and turned when they heard the shots. Although they have no firm...
ATLAS occupies just one small corner of the strange and wonderful world that is the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) - the circular, 14-mile-underground particle accelerator that promises scientists untold insights into the mysteries of the cosmos. More than 25 years in the planning, with a price tag of about $10 billion, the LHC officially - finally - began smashing protons together on March 30. The goal: to answer the most fundamental questions about how the universe works. (See pictures...
...classic rat study by Bruce Alexander, emeritus professor of psychology at Simon Fraser University, researchers measured the impact of the social and physical environment on the risk of morphine addiction. They found that rats kept in small, isolated cages readily chose to self-administer high, frequent doses of morphine. But rats that lived in "Rat Park" - an earthly rat paradise with plenty of friends and potential mates, nesting materials, toys and room to run and play - voluntarily took significantly less morphine, preferring activity with friends and family to getting high. Under some conditions, Rat Park rats took 20 times less...