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Randall has influenced string theorists, who also claim that extra dimensions exist. String theory is a model of physics in which building blocks are one-dimensional objects called strings instead of zero-dimensional particles like electrons...
...they improve service, the 40-odd Chinatown bus companies are becoming a growing threat to Greyhound Lines Inc. along Eastern seaboard routes. Greyhound has been shrinking its national network because of a string of financial problems. "We have no objection to competition as long as it is on a level playing field," says Kim Plaskett, director of corporate communications at Greyhound, which now offers a special online ticket rate of $18 on its New York City--Boston route, vs. the normal $35 fare...
...with the World Bank and other financial institutions, have pledged more than $5.4 billion in funding for the long-term reconstruction of Pakistan, aid organizations say they aren't getting the backup they need. Private aid agencies complain that donors are tired of digging into their pockets after a string of disasters?from the 2004 tsunami to Hurricane Katrina. Action Contre la Faim, a French agency with branches worldwide, says that in the three weeks after the tsunami, it raised $475,000 in cash from American donors. In the same period after the Pakistani quake, it collected only...
...grandfather would roll over in his grave if I sold our land. He'd haunt me the rest of my life." CLIFTON HERBERT, resident of Cameron Parish, Louisiana, where a proposal was made last week to move an entire string of villages, including Cameron, 25 km to 30 km inland from the Gulf Coast to protect against future hurricanes...
...Anyone worried that Broadway has no room for anything but tourist-friendly comfort food could only marvel at the arrival of this hair-raising drama from McDonagh (The Beauty Queen of Leenane). A writer of sadistic children's stories is thrown into prison on suspicion of committing a string of grisly child murders, in a play so intense and disturbing that some critics (and many in the audience) tried to pass it off as a comedy...