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NOBODY GOES to the Explosives B Cabaret, an obscure intersection of two steam tunnels below Adams House D-Entry, to see a play. You go to have a Theatrical Experience. Once the directors have locked you into that cramped little room under the pipes, with its black drapes and grilled slits of windows and 25 rickety wooden seats at most, all bets are off. They might perform one of Samuel Beckett's plays. They might blow the place up. They might just turn out all the lights and make you sit in the dark for an hour. Then again, that...
Wilson, the only American in the physical sciences to join the elite Nobel circle this year, cracked a puzzle involving one of the most basic phenomena in the universe. At different pressures or temperatures, matter changes: water boils into steam, iron bars lose their magnetism, rock-hard metals melt into gooey paste. But as matter approaches these so-called critical points, its physical properties fluctuate so wildly that even the most powerful computers were unable to describe its behavior exactly...
...decries the Administration's refusal to cut the defense budget, and would hold domestic cuts at current levels. A former Democratic state party chairman, Davis was an eleventh-hour draft choice for his party's nomination when the front runner's campaign ran out of steam...
...Thursday, the rally had started to lose steam, sending the Dow Jones index skidding more than 18 points. By week's end the Dow had slipped below the 1000 level, closing at 993. Meanwhile, analysts had begun to warn that little was fueling the buying binge except the fervent hope that lower interest rates would eventually lead to economic growth...
Wilson received the prestigious Nobel award for his theory in "phase transitions"--the critical points at which water turns into ice or steam...