Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...From a huge caldron on the kitchen stove in a London flat wafts the comforting aroma of classic chicken soup, enough to feed a hungry orchestra. From a small upright piano in the living room wafts a bittersweet trickle of melody, enough to feed a hungry spirit. Michael Tilson Thomas, the 45-year-old principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, is cooking on both burners...
...years in time has touched off one of the most heated competitions in the history of science, a race that pits Europe's LEP against U.S. entries led by the powerful Tevatron at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) near Chicago and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) in California. Huge teams of physicists at the rival centers are working day and night to discover the next new particle and to explain the behavior of those already found. In recent years, each lab has had its share of triumphs...
...have been as tough to illustrate, however, as this week's cover story on the smallest particles in the universe. Sciences editor Charles Alexander asked Lertola to diagram both the family tree of matter and the difference between types of gigantic underground colliders, the huge machines in which subatomic particles are accelerated to fantastic speeds. "Each assignment has its own challenge," says Lertola. "The image has to get an idea across in a % clever way. This time the devil was in the detail: colors, shapes and contrasts...
...Solido film, a largely computer-generated extravaganza called Echoes of the Sun that was co-produced by the Japanese firm Fujitsu, opened last week at the Fujitsu Pavilion at Expo '90, an international fair in Osaka. Showgoers queued up for a chance to park themselves in front of a huge wraparound screen, strap on a pair of battery-powered goggles and enter a startlingly realistic 3-D world...
...part, the frustration springs from society's attitudes towards prosecuting rape cases. Historically, a huge majority of alleged rapists brought up on charges are released. Often, the courts, like the general public, maintain the assaulted women are to blame...