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Protons, which along with neutrons form the nuclei of atoms-and hence the bulk of the matter in the universe -have long been regarded as permanent fixtures on the subatomic scene, members of a family of heavy particles known as baryons. If they happened to collide with still other subatomic...
Now that idea is being challenged by, among others, Physicists Steven Weinberg and Sheldon Glashow of Harvard and Pakistani Abdus Salam, winners of this year's Nobel Prize in physics for showing an underlying unity of two of nature's four basic forces: electromagnetism and the so-called...
Georgia's Patsy Morris and others work to save the condemned
There was one case, she remembers well, when she was turned down 21 consecutive times. But Patsy Morris is not one to take rejection personally, and she finally got an American Civil Liberties Union lawyer to say yes. Small wonder she runs into resistance: what she wants is 200 to...
Dubbed the Queen of Death Row by one appreciative convict, Morris, 49, a mother of four and a staunch opponent of capital punishment, is death penalty coordinator for the Georgia affiliate of the A.C.L.U. She normally does not start hunting for lawyers until after the defendant has been convicted and...