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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Forbes' most successful piece is "Cow with Tree in Mask." The lively brush strokes and the great depth of color in the tree's foliage make part of the painting commendable. But the picture is weakened by the unrelenting blackness of the mask, which destroys the harmony between sensuous lines and color...
...researchers will be awfully disappointed if all they succeed in doing is to fill out the known family tree of particles. Too much predictability can make science dull. Says Samuel Ting, an M.I.T. physicist and one of the head researchers at CERN: "I will only consider our experiment a success if we discover something really surprising -- new types of quarks, for example -- that would explode the standard theory...
...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...
...waxed-paper cups on his tray maybe half of them filled, most of them probably just extras he grabbed accidentally. The happy first-year finishes his meal, brings his tray to the waste baskets and conveyor belt, and proceeds to throw out the equivalent of a small tree...
...doesn't even offer students glasses. First-years file through the Union's food line only to be greeted by column after towering column of neatly-stacked crimson-and-white waxed paper cups. Harvard forces each first-year to waste at least one twig of a sacrificial tree...