Word: stringing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Justice Department, the Department of Energy and, of course, the beaten man known as Bill Richardson, Parker's reversal is just another Los Alamos embarrassment in a seemingly endless string of them. The government's case against Lee "no longer has the requisite clarity and persuasive character" to justify his incarceration, declared Parker, and indeed a disastrous hearing last week may have left the judge little choice...
Both political parties and their presidential candidates have been bidding shamelessly for high-tech affections, and e-companies have won a string of victories in Congress as a result. These include a moratorium on new taxes on e-commerce, limitations on lawsuits against firms involved in Y2K glitches, and a bill that accepts the validity of personal signatures sent over...
...mechanics, which deals with the universe at its smallest scales; and Einstein's general theory of relativity, which deals with the very largest. Even as an undergraduate at Argentina's Instituto Balseiro, Maldacena had been intrigued by the idea that a bridge spanning the two might be constructed using string theory--so called because it assumes the fundamental constituents of matter are not pointlike particles but tiny, vibrating loops of string...
When Maldacena transformed his string-theory black hole into something resembling conventional particle physics, his colleagues reacted first with disbelief, then with delight, dancing and singing (in a spoof of the Macarena), "!Ehhhh, Maldacena...
...Finally, after a string of truly dreadful musical acts and the first stage of the roll call, America got its first extended look at Laura Bush, political wife. She took the stage at the convention at 10:05, amidst a rain of confetti and storming applause, and took her place in front of a backdrop of classroom desks filled with shell-shocked kids. Visibly nervous, but smiling bravely, Bush made her way through a speech peppered with references to her husband's dedication to the Texas education system, to her (apparently idyllic) family life, and with a few nods...