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MATHER HOUSE STRING QUARTET...
...ASYIR, 66, Indonesian Muslim cleric; on the day he was to be freed after serving 18 months for minor immigration offenses and document forgery; in Jakarta. Police claim they have new evidence that he is the leader of the radical group Jemaah Islamiah and that he approved a string of bombings, including the October 2002 Bali attack that killed 202 people. (Abubakar has consistently denied involvement in terrorist activities, and is suing TIME for a 2002 article that accused him of links to terrorism...
...knew golf was going to become cool, that rappers and rockers were going to get into it," he says. But Tanner also believes that to appeal to women, urban consumers and kids, "golf stuff cannot look like golf stuff." So his company created sexier golf styles, like spaghetti-string tanks and baby Ts. He targeted the urban fashion market and Gen X with a logo that features his "UGG Man"?a black golfer with "dancing dreads." Soon celebs like Samuel L. Jackson and Justin Timberlake were wearing the stuff...
...originally planned to be a journalist but ended up getting a Ph.D. in physics instead. By the mid-1980s, some of his colleagues had decided that the answer to Einstein's failed dream was to treat the building blocks of matter--quarks, photons, electrons and such--as minuscule, vibrating strings of energy rather than as particles. But superstring theory was considered no more than an esoteric and eccentric subspecialty until Witten (by this time a full professor at Princeton) turned his attention to it. Before long he was the dominant player in the field, and string theory was the hottest...
What sort of contributions? Don't ask, unless twistor-space methods and Yang-Mills theories are your cup of tea. But if Witten's string theory is right, it means that the quest Einstein began to find the ultimate laws of the universe may nearly be over. The proof, however, may still be many years off. Witten once called string theory "a bit of 21st century physics that somehow dropped into the 20th century." If so, Witten clearly has the 21st century mind to handle it. --By Michael Lemonick