Word: wondrous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...elevator doors opened into a cavernous room in an underground tunnel outside Geneva. Out came the eminent British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, in a wheelchair as always. He was there to behold a wondrous sight. Before him loomed a giant device called a particle detector, a component of an incredible machine whose job is to accelerate tiny fragments of matter to nearly the speed of light, then smash them together with a fury far greater than any natural collision on earth...
Timothea, who works for a publishing company, decides to make Colm Liverpool's new poet when she secretly publishes his writings to her in a book called Sea Sonnets. She presents the book to him one night before dinner, and Colm is wondrous. "What is a sonnet anyway?" he asks, and when Timothea explains that these sonnets are his poems, he replies that they are really nothing more than marks--sea marks...