Word: stanford
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...went up 22%, according to one study. The most profound impact is a new sense of vulnerability. Victims wonder when disaster will strike again and conjure up fresh calamities. "Disasters like earthquakes challenge a fundamental fantasy that we live with: that we're immortal," explains psychiatrist David Spiegel of Stanford University's School of Medicine...
Many hotels allowed the newly homeless, or those too frightened to stay in their insecure buildings, to camp out in their lobbies. At the darkened Stanford Court, complimentary caviar and smoked salmon were served by candlelight. The motive was not mere generosity: the comestibles would have spoiled without refrigeration. At the Mandarin Oriental, a manager explained, "We're doing our best to give our guests first-class comfort, even while bedding them down in the lobby." The expense-account Seven Hills of San Francisco Restaurant served a free sidewalk lunch to anyone who passed by. ) Bankers in three-piece suits...
...Nobel laureates, but it is also a propitious time for scientists to reveal discoveries that may win future Nobels. Last week, even as this year's Nobel winners were reacting to their awards, two teams of physicists made just such a landmark announcement. In rival statements -- one from the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center in California, the other from the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva -- scientists disclosed findings they say establishes beyond a reasonable doubt that the universe contains precisely three fundamental types, or families, of matter. No more, no less...
...charmed" and "strange" quarks, muons and muon neutrinos. The third is made up of "top" and "bottom" quarks, tau particles and tau neutrinos. Last week's announcements do not preclude the possibility that other types of particles could be discovered, but they raise the odds against that happening, by Stanford's estimate, to better than...
...significance of the new findings was underscored by the haste with which they were revealed. The Stanford team, led by Burton Richter (a 1976 Nobel laureate), went public first, issuing a press release only one day before a European symposium at which CERN's findings were to have been presented. That led to charges of bad sportsmanship from some of the CERN team, led by Carlo Rubbia (1984 Nobel), whose results are said to be more accurate and even more definitive...