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Bohr's life (1885 - 1962) is roughly divided into two halves: the years of his seminal contributions to atomic science, and his later role as scientific statesman during and after WW II. Ottaviani and Purvis take care to explain the concepts behind Bohr's multiple scientific breakthroughs, making the book a kind of illustrated primer on atomic physics. It was Bohr, for example, who proposed a model of the atom as a kind of mini solar system, with electrons orbiting around a nucleus. But this had its limits, both experimentally and "philosophically." So he moved to introduce Quantum Mechanics...
...attention given to the 60th anniversary of the Normandy invasion [May 31] had me wondering why politicians and average people make such a big deal about D-day. I believe we should remind ourselves of the horrors of World War I. That war was just as cruel as WW II. On many days thousands of soldiers lost their lives. Why aren't we creating elaborate new memorials for them? Is it because most of the soldiers involved in that conflict were not Americans? Igor Tyolgovatsor Budapest After the Rebellion "Two faces of china" [June 14] reported how the 1989 protests...
Bush is rushing madly into his 80th birthday June 12, when there will be a Houston celebration ("41@80") involving thousands--including a certain U.S. President and a couple dozen sports, TV and movie stars blowing candles and kisses. The next day: Bush's fourth parachute jump (counting his WW II bailout), at Texas A&M in College Station...
...form a government, but got enough seats to ensure that any coalition of reformist parties that succeeds in doing so will probably fall before the year is out, triggering another election. Reform-minded Serbs, still a majority but splintered among several parties, are glumly comparing their country to post WW-I Germany, when a series of weak governments gave way to the Nazi Party and Adolf Hitler. "We live in a Weimar reality," said Djordje Vukadinovic, a Belgrade political scientist. - By Andrew Purvis See: Going To Extremes Painful Progress PORTUGAL Prosecutors brought formal charges against 10 high-profile suspects held...
...crimes; the second lets viewers smugly conclude they could never make the same mistake as those evil, stupid Germans. Star Robert Carlyle (The Full Monty) avoids both traps. His Hitler is a humorless paranoid whose anti-Jewish rants are laughed off by his comrades in the trenches of WW I. But after the war, he discovers his gift for rabble-rousing. He is an artist of grievance, and in bitter, between-the-wars Germany, that is enough to gain power--that, plus luck and savvy p.r. (which includes trimming his mustache so that his look will be memorable, as Lenin...