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That sort of reasoning drives critics up the wall. It was bad enough, they say, when string theorists treated nonbelievers as though they were a little slow-witted. Now, it seems, at least some superstring advocates are ready to abandon the essential definition of science itself on the basis that string theory is too important to be hampered by old-fashioned notions of experimental proof...
...says Woit, "but if they can't be tested, they're not science." To borrow the withering dismissal coined by the great physicist Wolfgang Pauli, they don't even rise to the level of being wrong. That, says Sean Carroll of the University of Chicago, who has worked on strings, is unfortunate. "I wish string theorists would take the goal of connecting to experiment more seriously," he says. "It's true that nobody has any good idea of how to test string theory, but who's to say someone won't wake up tomorrow morning and think...
...minute Mike Douglas Show aired from 1961 to 1982; in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. As a big-band singer, the World War II veteran made the pop charts with the soapy 1966 hit, The Men in My Little Girl's Life. Over two decades he hosted guests from a string of sitting and former U.S. Presidents to a preschooler named Tiger Woods (whose golf skills prompted fellow guest Bob Hope to say, "Whatever drugs that kid is on, I want some"). The show was, Douglas insisted, "really a music show, with a whole lot of talk and laughter in between...
...countries. I used to think of the U.S. military as a great and humane force that saved the world from such menaces as communism and Hitler's evil. I am sure that the vast majority of U.S. Army officers and enlisted men are decent, professional soldiers. But the recent string of incidents that has come to light in Iraq is destroying the reputation of a great professional army. It would be best for the U.S. to find an honorable way out of Iraq quickly. Swift and transparent trial and punishment of the perpetrators of those crimes are the least...
...long, bloody campaign is the legacy of the assumption of power two decades ago by President Yoweri Museveni, a southerner who helped end the string of bloody reigns by northerners such as Milton Obote and Idi Amin. Former soldiers who returned north and felt out of favor soon formed a rebel groups with Christian roots but decidedly anti-Christian tactics...