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Italy's Prime Minister, Giovanni Spadolini, called the Red Brigades' action "a quantum leap in which the terrorists are trying to transform their armed movement into an armed party." He said that the Italian secret service was investigating possible ties between the Red Brigades and West Germany's Red Army Faction, a band of left-wing terrorists mentioned as potential allies by Dozier's captors. The West German group has been linked by authorities to the September attempt near Heidelberg on the life of General Frederick Kroesen, commander of U.S. Army forces in Europe. Said Spadolini...
...Sheets, a first-year business student, perhaps captured the mood of the audience best, saying. "Though both sides made some quantum leaps in logic...
...Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry, worth about $182,000 each, went to five men, three Americans, a Swede and a Japanese, for helping open windows on that frenzied dance of the atoms. In their work, they used one of the more esoteric tools of 20th century science: quantum mechanics, a mathematical way of looking at the paradoxically dual nature of matter, whose smallest components sometimes behave like waves, sometimes like particles. But their results have everyday importance, for example, in the development of techniques for measuring pollution and the creation of new drugs and chemicals...
...spectra can also be created by directing a light beam or, say, X or gamma rays at an object. As the radiant energy strikes the atoms, their electrons hop from one orbit (or, in the language of quantum mechanics, one energy level) to another, absorbing or emitting light at specific frequencies. Such spectra yielded invaluable data about atomic and molecular structure...
Part two closes with "Jump Jump," which makes the necessary quantum leap in order to escape the world he has been surveying. Though decrying Les Miserables as "too serious," he accumulates similar artistic visions from all around him--Van Gogh's. Cezanne's--which represent something lasting and attractive amidst the cool cruel world; he shows the way to escape through art to a higher reality. Dedicating the song to John Lennon makes the statement even more powerful: Even death does not stop the music...