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...easy to understand why even Hawking was awed: he was looking at just a portion of the largest scientific instrument ever built. Known as the large electron-positron collider, this new particle accelerator is the centerpiece of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research and one of Europe's proudest achievements. LEP is a mammoth particle racetrack residing in a ring- shaped tunnel 27 km (16.8 miles) in circumference and an average of 110 meters (360 ft.) underground. The machine contains 330,000 cubic meters (431,640 cu. yds.) of concrete and holds some 60,000 tons of hardware, including...
...books, it is in some ways the most powerful. But Malan's self-absorption obscures his extraordinary credentials. He is a relative of Daniel F. Malan, one of the architects of apartheid. Rian becomes the righteous recorder of black rage in the "charnel house" of Soweto, the largest black township created by that apartheid. Alas, the conflict of genealogy and emotion tends to produce more heat than light. In a typical episode, Malan recalls a psychopath who murdered whites with a hammer; Simon Mpungose's story "seemed to unfold like the story of a saint, deeply disturbing in its biblical...
Ferris directs the church's four-part mixed choir, which he created upon his arrival in 1958, and plays the organ at church services. He also edited the University's third hymn book and designed the Isham Organ, heralded upon its installation as the largest American-built tracker action organ in the United States...
...record of the largest Asian ethnic group in the U.S. is ambivalent, with success stories alternating with tales of the underclass. Numbering nearly 1 million in California alone, Filipinos have found their situation complicated by the practice of pressing the Philippine immigration level -- currently close to 50,000 a year -- to the fullest in order to bring along as many relatives as possible, including those who have little education and work experience...
...Germany's economy is controlled by 220 unwieldy state Kombinate (conglomerates), whose production has been dictated by ill-conceived five-year plans rather than by supply and demand. Heavy- industry manufacturers, for instance, have had to shoehorn consumer goods into their production lines, so that TuR, East Germany's largest producer of electrical transformers, also makes appliances for melting cheese at home...