Word: standardly
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...particle physicists, the answer hardly matters; the mere fact of neutrino mass will force a rethinking of the "standard model"--the theoretical framework of all subatomic physics. For cosmology, there could be even more tangible consequences. The universe is teeming with neutrinos--so many that trillions of them pass through every human being on Earth every second (fortunately, without doing any damage). Even a minuscule mass could give them enough combined gravity to slow the expansion of the universe that followed the Big Bang. They might conceivably even reverse it, leading to a cosmic catastrophe aptly named the Big Crunch...
William James played golf with John D. Rockefeller now and then. The philosopher of pragmatism admired the psalm-singing old pirate of Standard Oil. James was bemused that Rockefeller could be "so complex, subtle, oily, fierce, strongly bad and strongly good a human being." John D. was "a most lovable person" and yet, as James wrote to his brother Henry in 1905, seemed "a man 10 stories deep, and to me quite unfathomable...
DUKE ELLINGTON (1899-1974) From the 1930s to the '50s, the master composer's Big Band was jazz's gold standard, creating such classics as Black, Brown and Beige. Duke's compositions--timelessly elegant and invested with rich textures and emotional fullness--helped push jazz to unparalleled heights. Just as his popularity seemed to be fading, he reignited his legend with the fiery 1956 recording Ellington at Newport...
WYNTON MARSALIS (1961- ) A master soloist and bandleader and a Pulitzer prizewinning composer, Marsalis has championed Neo-Traditionalism. Committed to the belief that the style created in the years between Armstrong and Davis is America's true classical music, he cofounded Jazz at Lincoln Center. His seminal album, Standard Time, Vol. 1 (1987), treats works by Ellington and Parker with passionate devotion...
...Kasich got the blueprint past queasy moderate Republicans in fine candidate style: with a little coalition-building. The House's tax-cut standard bearers -- Kasich, Gingrich, Dick Armey, et al -- promised that the plan's harshest characteristics would surely be softened in negotiations with the Senate anyway, so why not show a little short-term solidarity...