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...These include three pairs of light particles known as leptons, of which the negatively charged electron and chargeless neutrino are the most familiar, and three pairs of heavier particles known by the whimsical name of quarks. "Up" and "down" quarks combine to create protons and neutrons, the components of everyday matter, while "charm" and "strange" quarks conspire to make more exotic particles, the sort produced in deep space by quasars and high-energy cosmic rays. In 1977, when a fifth quark called "bottom" was discovered, physicists quickly deduced that it too must have a partner...
...built up by workers with their labor, financial prognosticators have hailed the coming of the cashless society. Club Med founder Gilbert Trigano tried to create some cashless utopias of his own by asking his guests to pay for things with beads as part of their tropical vacations. But in everyday life, consumers until now have largely chosen to hold on to their coin purses, dollar bills and checkbooks, reflecting an atavistic, under-the-mattress reluctance to part with their purchasing power...
...geared toward your average person who isnot necessarily knowledgeable in technical orcomputer fields but is interested in howtechnology is affecting society in everyday life,"Corbett says. "Not your [computer science] major,not your programmer but more along the lines ofthe average schmoe...
...university money being spent upon art--I think an enormous bronze clipper ship or the statue or hand-lasted shoe to commemorate New England's economic contributions to America would go a long ways toward livening up the Yard--but I question whether Christo's desire to "re-envision" everyday structure by enfolding them in sensuously undulating fabric is truly appropriate to an institution devoted precisely to propping up our nation's "everyday structures...
...have a lot more to work out," Schutt said, "and a lot to do, but everyday things are getting better...