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...relations with nature, we've been playing a deadly game of cowboys and Indians. We all started as Indians. Many primitive cultures -- and the indigenous peoples still clinging today to their pockets of underdevelopment -- regarded the earth and all its creatures as alive. Nature was a whistling wind tunnel of spirits. With the rise of a scientific, clockwork cosmos and of missionary Christianity, with its message of man's dominion and relentless animus against paganism, nature was metaphorically transformed. It became dead meat...
...light at the end of the tunnel now shines dimly," Sen. Michael J. Barrett '70 (D-Cambridge) said of the ruling...
...consider Paris, which will soon be several driving hours closer to London as work on a tunnel under the English Channel forges ahead. The French capital is fast becoming a major diplomatic crossroads, a host to economic summits, peace negotiations on Cambodia and talks to limit the spread of chemical weapons. In Spain, which will be host to both the Summer Olympics and World's Fair in 1992, a vibrant mood of enterprise and enthusiasm mirrors the distant days of another century, when Spanish ships braved the unknown to discover new lands and Christopher Columbus reached the Americas. Even Italy...
Hundreds of feet beneath the ground outside the Swiss town of Meyrin, near Geneva, a six-year, $660 million construction project is rushing toward a payoff. Workers at the European Center for Particle Physics (CERN) have excavated a 12-ft.-wide circular tunnel that is 16 miles in circumference, installed nearly 5,000 powerful electromagnets, and put along the ring four massive detectors, each weighing several tons but sensitive to the passage of a single subatomic particle. This week, if all goes according to plan, technicians will begin test runs of the largest scientific instrument in the world...
...down a two-mile-long straight track, then spinning them out in opposing semicircles before colliding them. The CERN machine is more conventional and thus more likely to work from the start. The positrons and electrons in the LEP are made to circle repeatedly in opposite directions through the tunnel, with new particles added periodically to the stream. In a given period of time, the LEP is expected to produce hundreds of times as many Z 0s as the Stanford collider does. That gives CERN the best odds of being the first to measure the Z 0's life-span...