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...Sept. 10, scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) laboratory in Geneva will switch on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) - a $6 billion particle accelerator that will send beams of protons careening around a 17-mile underground ring, crash them into one another to re-create the immediate aftereffects of the Big Bang, and then monitor the debris in the hopes of learning more about the origins and workings of the universe. Next week marks a low-power run of the circuit, and scientists hope to start smashing atoms at full power by the end of the month...
...Jarreau used to jog before every performance - until a few years back, when he began waking up with painful, swollen knees and made the switch to speed-walking. After aching foot tendons slowed him down again, he discovered the stationary bike. "Joints, hair, eyes," the 68-year-old singer says with a smile, "There's an age when you have a mutiny of the body...
...Then came a series of ads that mixed video of Americans from around the country coming together to build a wind turbine - the soaring symbol of green power - while a narrator spoke of the need to "repower America" by pushing politicians in Washington for a rapid switch to 100% clean energy in 10 years. Other ads showcased gleaming solar thermal plants, and other new clean technologies breaking the horizon...
...rare species, dig it up and FedEx it home, avoiding all the inspections along the way." For the travel-averse, there's no shortage of cactus dealers online: a 2005 Mexican study found nearly 4,000 websites selling cactuses, and 500 were run by illicit traders, who constantly switch Web servers and names to elude law enforcement. "The downside," says Wiedhopf, "is that this is a world where some people have a sense of greed, a need for personal acquisition...
...Basically, the identity switch comes about by a reprogramming process that changes the pattern of which genes are active and which are shut...