Word: transformation
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...particles and the forces that bind them all together depends on accelerators -- and the bigger the better. The reason: the best way to produce particles for study is to create intense bursts of energy. Einstein's discovery that matter and energy are equivalent guarantees that such bursts will spontaneously transform themselves into particles of matter. The SSC would make these extremely concentrated energy bursts by using its magnets to guide protons, moving at nearly 186,000 miles per second, around the enormous ring in opposite directions. Then they would be forced to collide. The major difference between...
...decisive victory. His mini-landslide seemed an only slightly diluted version of the two previous Republican triumphs, just as Bush's philosophy seemed an only slightly diluted version of Ronald Reagan's. The triumph was a personal validation for Bush, who had managed during the 1988 campaign to transform his gawky and feckless image into a warm persona that voters found comfortable. It was also an expression of general contentment with the nation's current patina of prosperity and peace and with the Republican Party, which has ruled the White House for 16 of the past 20 years...
Pundits like the New Republic's Morton Kondracke, a once-liberal Democrat, speculate that Jackson will win the 1992 nomination, lose miserably, and transform the Democratic Party into an American version of the British Labor Party--a strong liberal voice permanently locked out of the nation's highest office...
...helped transform that election campaign into instantaneous myth was Theodore H. White. The Making of the President 1960 was the first of a series of five he wrote. White's description of the 1960 race, as one reads it now, seems an endearing period piece. One cannot conceive of writing such prose now, about the 1988 campaign. White invented the form. He absorbed politics and hymned it in an act of reportage and imagination that was a variation on Walt Whitman. White's descriptions of the 1960 race are bardic, Homeric. Political bosses are "chieftains." The "clashes" between Kennedy...
After 15 years of authoritarian rule, Pinochet agrees to uphold results of a plebiscite. While the vote is a turning point, it will not transform the country overnight, and the future is far from certain. -- Perestroika brings intriguing changes to the KGB. -- Why South Africa is so eagerly courting its black neighbors. -- Foreign troops are leaving, but Angola still bleeds...