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...message of peace and planetary conservation prevailed, and the dam was scuttled in 1983. Briefly jailed for barring the path of a bulldozer, Brown was elected to the Tasmanian parliament the day after his release -- one of five "green" M.P.s who hold the balance of power in Australia's smallest state. Today he speaks out regularly on such issues as nuclear disarmament and the dangers of a runaway greenhouse effect. "This is an intellectual and emotional revolution," says Brown. "If we don't have a future, then we haven't got a present...
...appeared in the pages of the British science journal Nature in an unprecedented form. Two IBM researchers, in a scientific and marketing tour de force, had spelled out their corporate emblem by dragging atoms across a crystal of nickel one at a time. The result: the world's smallest corporate logo, measuring 660 billionths of an inch long...
...have been as tough to illustrate, however, as this week's cover story on the smallest particles in the universe. Sciences editor Charles Alexander asked Lertola to diagram both the family tree of matter and the difference between types of gigantic underground colliders, the huge machines in which subatomic particles are accelerated to fantastic speeds. "Each assignment has its own challenge," says Lertola. "The image has to get an idea across in a % clever way. This time the devil was in the detail: colors, shapes and contrasts...
...Krumrie--a Bengal lineman--broke his legin three places in the Super Bowl," Williamscontinued. "Whereas some people yell 'doctor' whenthey get the smallest cramp in their leg, Krumriedidn't make a sound. He just looked at me, flat onhis back, and said 'Don't give...
...Bernhard Meier, a quest through Madagascar's leech-infested rain forests ended with blood poisoning, malaria, an injured knee -- and glorious success. A primatologist at Ruhr University in Bochum, West Germany, Meier had been tracking the hairy-eared dwarf lemur, the world's second smallest primate, which scientists had never seen alive. Last week he revealed that he had captured and photographed one of the mouse-size creatures...