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@@4000241 I think it is safe to say that ours is the only dining room in West Los Angeles on whose table -- an eight-foot-long , two-hundred-pound behemoth on which I have taken my meals for many years -- rest piles of photocopies of articles on suicide , all of which were printed in the Encyclopaedia Britannica over t... |
@@4000341 The high point of my freshman-year English literature survey course , taught by that sweet man and Emily Dickinson biographer Richard Sewall , came early in the fall . Struggling through the Middle English of The Canterbury Tales , I arrived at the point in the story where the narrator of the poem -- referred... |
@@4000441 There seems only one cause behind all forms of social misery : bigness . It appears to be the one and only problem permeating all creation . Wherever something is wrong , something is too big . -- Leopold Kohr , The Breakdown of Nations <p> <p> To undergraduates universities are landlords , to scholars they a... |
@@4000541 The papers that comprise this symposium are adapted from remarks delivered on 31 May 2002 in Washington , D.C. , at the NAS 's tenth national conference titled " Higher Education and Democracy in Peace and War . " They reflect the intention of the conference organizers to approach the role of patriotism in hi... |
@@4000641 Quaesivit arcana poli videt dei . ( " He sought the secret of the Pole but found the hidden face of God . " ) -- inscription , Scott Polar Institute , Cambridge <p> <p> Everyone has an Antarctic . -- Thomas Pynchon , V. <p> <p> As a child I was home-schooled on an old schooner in various anchorages along the ... |
@@4000941 The expression " sent up the river " finds its roots in New York penal history . From the early 1800s on , convicted felons from New York City were literally " sent up the river " to Sing Sing , the gloomy penitentiary perched above the banks of the Hudson River at Ossining . <p> My arrival there was July 17 ... |
@@4001041 ONE OF THE MOST PROMINENT causal factors of the seemingly rebounding addiction to supernaturalism as an explanation of the world and justification for action is surely the dramatic rate of social and technological change , which often forces people to abandon tradition in order to adapt to entirely new situat... |
@@4001341 A computerized block design task was developed which records temporal and nontemporal measures of performance . This study evaluates the reliability of the measures and reports their intercorrelations . With one exception , the measures showed moderate to good reliability . The results indicate that increasin... |
@@4001441 Our purpose in this study is to view theories of psychotherapy from a general social-political context , especially insofar as they pertain to values . Beginning with Weisskopf-Joelson 's ( 1980 ) thesis that theories of psychotherapy may be " perceptual houses " with their own unique value structures , we st... |
@@4001541 In April 1990 , I was in Japan for a United Nations conference , held in the industrial city of Sendai , on the relationship of science and technology to international peace and security . on the night before returning to the United States , while sleeping in a typical old-style Japanese inn in Kyoto , I had ... |
@@4001741 Thank my fourth-grade teacher , Miss Schneider , for my introduction to Christmas . As public school teachers go , she was , I grant you , something of a religious fanatic ( among other things , she held Gospel study classes in pupils ' homes every Wednesday after school ) . I will never forget the day I sat ... |
@@4002041 As the United States prepares to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the 1955 act of civil disobedience by Rosa Parks , it is critical that any false emphases and flawed cultural myths associated with that December day be challenged and corrected . By exploring some of the historical-political , social , and pe... |
@@4002241 When the topic of Junior Achievement arises in conversations among business people or educators , many recall its after-school community program in which teenagers crafted products to sell . This business education program , called the JA Company , has , since 1919 , attracted several million of America 's yo... |
@@4002341 By performing one political action , a citizen may simultaneously accomplish both a practical and a symbolic result . For instance , in the act of voting , one not only participates in the determination of public policy but also expresses enthusiasm and discontent , achieves a sense of common social ties , an... |
@@4002441 Educating a first generation of citizens to take their place in a democratic society is as essential today as it was over 200 years ago . Just as teachers in our world 's emerging democracies are trying to ready new generations for a democratic life , so were America 's first educators concerned with a simila... |
@@4002541 Section : Essays GLOBAL AGAIN <p> TWENTY YEARS AFTER it burst into international politics with the 1973 crisis , oil remains a strategic commodity critical in the global balance of power . But , looking toward the 21st century , the perspective has changed radically since those days when it seemed that oil po... |
@@4002641 PREMATURE PEACEMAKING <p> AN UNPLEASANT truth often overlooked is that although war is a great evil , it does have a great virtue : it can resolve political conflicts and lead to peace . This can happen when all belligerents become exhausted or when one wins decisively . Either way the key is that the fightin... |
@@4002741 Section : Bush at Midterm HITTING THE RIGHT TARGETS <p> TWO YEARS have passed since the September 11 , 2001 , terrorist strikes aroused the United States from its post-Cold War strategic slumber . The attacks spurred Washington to action and offered an opportunity for fresh thinking in foreign policy . To mee... |
@@4002841 The Middle of the Twentieth Century witnessed the destruction of colonial systems in many parts of Asia and Africa . In the aftermath of the Second World War , newly independent Arab states seemed to brim with the promise of rapid socioeconomic development and an enhancement of quality . of life . Today , a h... |
@@4002941 EDITOR 'S NOTE : In September of 1991 Francis Boyle asked the Coalition to Stop U.S. Intervention in the Middle East to submit an Indictment , Complaint and Petition for Relief from Genocide by President George Herbert Walker Bush and the United States of America , which he had prepared on behalf of the 4.5 m... |
@@4003041 Taiwan 's diplomatic stand in the global community has faced challenges since 1971 , when it lost its UN seat to the PRC ( People 's Republic of China ) . More and more countries shifted their official recognition from Taipei to Beijing , and fewer and fewer international organizations accepted Taiwan 's memb... |
@@4003141 Section : Editorial 18 <p> According to reports , after the careful solicitation of all kinds of opinions , the department of interior affairs has invited relevant agencies and scholars and formed a special committee . The revision draft of the law of welfare for disabled people will be started soon . It clea... |
@@4003241 Section : Africa Rights Monitor <p> I spent a full four weeks in South Africa from February 7 to March 7 , 1991 , the length of the visa granted me by the South African government . My last visit was in 1954 , thirty-seven years ago . During all those intervening years , although I traveled frequently to Afri... |
@@4003341 Mahmood Mamdani 's recent book , Citizen and Subject , examines the legacy of the bifurcated state in contemporary Africa . Under colonial rule , the full rights of citizenship were usually granted only to Europeans , while the vast majority of African inhabitants were recognized as subjects who therefore may... |
@@4003441 This paper is a report from the field rather than the result of formal research into comparative education . For the academic years 1995-1998 I , an American medievalist , have been teaching European and American history at the European Humanities University in Minsk , Belarus . For the last two years , I hav... |
@@4003541 THE GROWING INFLUX of immigrants that troubled America 's elite in the early twentieth century gave rise to a movement to assimilate the newcomers as quickly as possible. 1 Several characteristics of the new immigrants disturbed native-born Americans . They entered the United States from southern and eastern ... |
@@4003641 Section : Review Essay <p> Harvest of Empire : A History of Latinos in America . By Juan Gonzlez . New York : Viking Penguin , 2000. xx + 346 pp . Maps , tables , notes , bibliography , and index . $27.95 . <p> Changing Race : Latinos , the Census , and the History of Ethnicity in the United States . By Clara... |
@@4003741 In his journal entry for March 2 , 1835 , the Reverend John Dunbar , missionary to the Pawnee , described the Indian women as " mere slaves " condemned to a " laborious " life and banished to the cold part of the lodge beyond the glow of the fire . The Pawnee men , Dunbar reported , were " abominably lazy , "... |
@@4003841 Previous to 1940 fewer than 10 percent of women living in the western Navajo reservation gave birth in a hospital , but by 1970 the percentage of hospital births was nearly 100 percent ( Kunitz 1976 , 16 ) . Leighton and Kluckholn stated in 1948 , " Today an increasing number of Navajo women go to the Indian ... |
@@4003941 INTRODUCTION <p> This study is intended to establish a framework for analyzing the economic impact of narcotraffic between Colombia , where most of the world 's cocaine is refined , and the State of Florida , which is the primary area of entry for Andean cocaine into the United States. 1 The purpose of the st... |
@@4004041 Section : The Geographical Review October 1992 <p> ABSTRACT . Columbus is only a small part of the large story that is the quincentenary of 1492 . Since publication of " The Early Spanish Main " ( 1966 ) by Carl O. Sauer , geographers have treated the Columbian voyages as the start of a massive intercultural ... |
@@4004141 Guest Editors <p> There can only be disaster arising from unawareness of the causalities and effects inherent in our own technologies . -- Marshall McLuhan , The Gutenberg Galaxy , 1962 <p> <p> Any technology sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic . -- Arthur C. Clarke , Ascent to Orbit , 1984 ... |
@@4004241 ABSTRACT . Rapid construction of new spaces like hotels , malls , private clubs , and gated communities in Greater Cairo , Egypt produces structures disconnected spatially and conceptually from most of the existing urban fabric . Their spatial concepts and practices , as well as architectural forms and expert... |
@@4004341 Anthropologists inspired by the works of Michel Foucault have described development as a discourse imposed on the Third World by powerful western institutions . In defining the power of such agencies ( especially the World Bank ) these authors focus not on the practices of actors or sets of actors , but rathe... |
@@4004441 The study of gender and culture change in an Israeli village of Moroccan Jewish immigrants reveals a paradox : although women accept men 's definition of the honorable female , one which limits women 's activities to the private sphere , women challenge this definition at least on the issue of employment outs... |
@@4004541 The rescue of the Danish Jews from the Nazi roundups of 1943 has become the defining image of Judaism in Denmark , both within the country and to the world outside . This article examines the way in which this story about the past has been constructed , focusing particularly on its portrayals of the types of ... |
@@4004641 While research in physical education has been conducted for over fifty years within the United States , it is only during the 1980s that teacher education researchers have started to focus on the influence of the teaching practice experience on physical education student teachers . These efforts may in part h... |
@@4004741 As a physical educator , it is somewhat interesting to ask students , as well as adults from the general population , a simple question . " If you took a true high school physical education class , what was it like ? " Many respondents indicate that their remembrances are similar to what Dougherty and Bonanno... |
@@4004941 Abstract <p> The general purpose of this study was to determine if marching band members , while carrying instruments , obtained 30 minutes of moderate intensity physical activity on a daily basis . Heart rates were collected on 16 members of a university marching band . Results indicate a significant differe... |
@@4005041 The purpose of this study was to assess the control and administration of athletic programs as viewed by the faculty . Satisfaction regarding perceived knowledge , academic environment , and locus of control were investigated by both division affiliation ( i.e. , Division I , II , III ) and current faculty at... |
@@4005241 Controversy exists concerning the efficacy and safety of creatine supplementation . The present study used a cross-sectional design to examine social cognitive predictors of creatine use versus non-use among 148 male , undergraduate , recreational resistance trainers . Seventy participants ( 47.3% ) reported ... |
@@4005641 IT IS certainly a memorable image : New York City mayor Abe Beame standing before the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem and leaving a plaintive , one-word note -- " HELP . " At that time , 30 years ago , the Big Apple needed all the help it could get . It was in the midst of a financial crisis the likes of which had ... |
@@4007141 SANTAYANA 'S ADAGE <p> In 1896 , Krafft-Ebing published Psychopathia Sexualis . Popularly defined as hereditary weakness or taintedness in the family pedigree , degeneracy was called upon as a causal explanation for perversions of the sexual instinct . Although Krafft-Ebing accepted Karl Ulrichs ' proposal th... |
@@4007741 In the long history of the university , back to medieval Europe , and the longer history of its precursors , back to the schools of antiquity , tack to Aristotle 's Lyceum and to Plato 's Academy , if the phrase " student evaluations " had been heard , it would have meant the evaluation , more exactly the jud... |
@@4007841 The relationship between the Supreme Court and the press has been but a footnote in scholarly analysis of political institutions and the press . Some explanations for that neglect are obvious . Press coverage of the Court is meager , particularly compared to that of Congress or the president. ( n1 ) Moreover ... |
@@4007941 Following the collapse of communism , the relative stability of the **29;288;TOOLONG confrontation has been replaced by power politics , national rivalries , and ethnic tensions in Europe as a whole with one qualitative difference : in the East , they are life-threatening ; in the West , they are a new challe... |
@@4008041 In the last two decades , Mexico has emerged as one of the most important countries in the world from the point of view of U.S. foreign policy . For the first sixty years after the Mexican Revolution of 1910-1920 , the United States took Mexican stability for granted , and we seldom worried overly about the l... |
@@4008141 The Israel-Palestine Liberation Organization Declaration of Principles has created enthusiasm about the prospects for economic cooperation between Arabs and Israelis . Arab-Israeli economic cooperation is exciting because of its political benefits , not to mention its economic effects . Thus , proposals for e... |
@@4008241 Section : THE ENVIORNMENTAL FACTOR <p> " The environmental and social problems of the Amazon are rooted in the economic trade-offs faced by a developing country seeking improved welfare , land distribution policy , labor productivity and income distribution , with only recent progress in political stabilizati... |
@@4008341 Section : LITIGATION <p> Like any good defense lawyer , Lisa B. Kemler knew the facts were against her client . Lorena Bobbitt had mutilated her husband . <p> Kemler 's only hope was to convince jurors that Bobbitt , too , was a victim . After years of abuse and intimidation by men , she had finally lost cont... |
@@4008441 Section : SUPREME COURT REPORT How social and political forces shape constitutional values <p> Anyone who doubts that the U.S. Supreme Court is a player in national politics need look no further than its decision last term in City of Boerne v. Flores . <p> In striking down the Religious Freedom Restoration Ac... |
@@4008541 Section : PROFILE Beth Ann Faragher is a lawyer who is also a citation . The mix puts a new spin on how she sees her clients and her job . <p> In Beth Ann Faragher 's fantasy she 's arguing a matter m court and says , We , your honor , in my case , Faragher v. Boca Raton ... " But in reality , she 's still wa... |
@@4008641 Section : OFFICE TECHNOLOGY Adding Technology Requires Knowing the Human Factor <p> LIKE MANY IN HIS FIELD , ALAN CIOCHON , DIRECTOR OF information technology with Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek in Milwaukee , has had to handle several technology rollouts over the past few years for the firm , which has three office... |
@@4008741 I am going to address you today about services and human resources under the Free Trade Agreement ( " FTA " ) . I noticed a logo on your form : It is the North American continent with a zipper running between Canada and the United States . I would like to ask Professor King , is the zipper opening or closing ... |
@@4008841 QUESTION , Ms. Wagner : In terms of invention , has the geographical center of origin changed over the century ? <p> ANSWER , Mr. Klitgaard : I have thought about that question for a long time since going to China in 1979 . When I was there for the first time , all the lights were out , there were no cars , a... |
@@4008941 This is a learned conference of lawyers , and I want you to know that these are very different than the learned conferences that we engineers put on . When we get together , we tend to tell lawyer jokes . I have not heard anyone tell any engineer jokes yet , so I will tell you one which is terribly old . I ap... |
@@4009041 Abstract : Communities frequently raise environmental justice issues when decisions are made without taking into consideration how people , including people living in low-income and minority communities , are linked to their surrounding environment . Different communities use and relate to their environment i... |
@@4009141 The current special education literature reflects a vigorous debate regarding the ethics of using aversive and intrusive procedures to reduce or eliminate severe behavior problems . Included in this debate is an extensive discussion of the procedural safeguards for use in special education settings in the rar... |
@@4009241 Educators have developed strategies to improve education based on constructivism . With a common emphasis on the improvement of intellectual development , a variety of educational approaches are emerging from the genetic epistemology of Piaget . Constructivism in education has become an appealing alternative ... |
@@4009341 The supervisor of interns in the public schools needs to be a caring person who has excellent human relations skills . He/she needs to have carefully chosen objectives to implement in providing the best of experiences for interns . The intern of today needs to be a professional who will soon be a teacher of A... |
@@4009441 A determined middle school principal succeeded in gaining nearly unanimous parental support for implementing a voluntary uniform program to make her at-risk school a safer and more positive place to learn . The article concisely describes the program and explains how she communicated program strengths achievi... |
@@4009541 Section : Speaking Out <p> An issue that will continue to confront educators in the 1990s involves reshaping the curriculum to meet the interests and abilities of students as they move through this new decade . Examining this issue thoroughly can not but force educators to reevaluate their thinking about scho... |
@@4009641 In discussing his method of doing research , Robert Coles ( 1990 ) describes several of his asssumptions : <p> .... we as human beings possess awareness or consciousness , and through language , we try to understand the world around us and convey what we have learned to others . I have also assumed that if I ... |
@@4009941 Electronic Chicken Soup for Reluctant ESL Writers <p> Key words : ESL ; reading ; journals ; media literacy ; writing <p> Key words : ESL ; reading ; journals ; media literacy ; writing <p> Semester after semester in the first meeting of my undergraduate English as a Second Language ( ESL ) classes , the same... |
@@4010041 An increased supply of interactive videodisc programs , coupled with the push to integrate technology within the education curriculum , compels educators to examine the components and effects of interactive videodisc technology . A search of the literature reveals a proliferation of articles dealing with the ... |
@@4010241 Studies have been performed to assess stress levels of students enrolled at universities across the United States ( Jemmott and Magloire , 1988 ; Whitman et al . 1984 ) . However , very few studies have been performed to assess stress levels of graduate students , and to our knowledge , there have been no suc... |
@@4010341 This study examined the utilization of counseling services by international students at a major university in Texas . Five hundred and sixteen international students visited the university counseling center during the academic years of 1992 and 1998 . Their demographic characteristics , referral resources , t... |
@@4010441 ABSTRACT <p> Educational competence in students is an outcome of interrelationships among student characteristics and complex factors in the school setting and the home and family environment . Ratings on nine educationally relevant aspects of the home environment were summed ; differences in the home score a... |
@@4010541 Abstract : Temperament provides clinicians with a framework for appreciating and supporting the individual differences of children while prompting ways to handle skillfully their behavior . The science of temperament and its application also assists clinicians in exploring and improving the transactional patt... |
@@4010641 Historically , the school psychologist 's work in early education has been restricted primarily to providing services to young children with special education needs . A more contemporary model calls for an expanded role with a focus on school readiness and the provision of services to all young children and t... |
@@4010741 The community college , at its best , can be a center for problem-solving in adult illiteracy or the education of the disabled . It can be a center for leadership training , too . It can also be the place where education and business leaders meet to talk about the problems of displaced workers . It can bring ... |
@@4010941 This presentation describes in some detail the gifted programme that has been in place for five years at a large comprehensive high school near Montreal . As a " school within a school " the Tags ( talented and gifted ) programme serves approximately 7% of the student body of 1700 students . Special classes ,... |
@@4011041 Section : Early Entrance to College <p> This article reviews research about how students who enter college early perform academically and socially . Research results suggest that early entrants continue to achieve at high levels in college . Also , most students make the adjustment to the social scene on camp... |
@@4011241 Go on from where you left off , said Mr. Magershon , not from where you began . Or are you like Darwin 's caterpillar ? ( n1 ) <p> Caterpillar logic provides the model for Samuel Beckett 's production , where series upon series go on from where they begin , where " going on " finally takes priority over all e... |
@@4011341 Winter concert season is usually a time of great excitement . The school year has barely begun when most music teachers find themselves preparing ensembles to " Deck the Halls " in the newest arrangement of holiday melodies ; Indian summer may be broiling the classrooms , but songs of sugarplums , snowflakes ... |
@@4011441 Section : CURRENT NEWS AND INFORMATION FOR MUSIC EDUCATORS National Standards Celebrated , Examined in Washington , D.C. <p> More than 300 music educators and other members of the arts community converged on Washington , D.C. , March 6-9 for a whirlwind of activities centered around the National Celebration o... |
@@4011641 Section : Special Focus : Music and the Brain <p> Four researchers in the field of music and the brain answer questions about their work and its larger implications . <p> This article presents the observations of a virtual panel of research experts who have conducted significant research on music and the brai... |
@@4011741 A general elementary music teacher describes the steps involved in becoming a National Board Certified Teacher . <p> When I first heard of National Certification , I was confused by it all . I heard bits and pieces , but not the whole story . The idea was intriguing , though , so I began the process and becam... |
@@4011841 The Uruguayan coup of 1973 , like those of other countries in the Southern Cone , signified not only the interruption of the constitutional , liberal-democratic state , but also the total dislocation of national cultural life. 1 In previous decades , the humanist , Europeanized and anachronic official culture... |
@@4011941 What are we going to do about contemporary African art ? At one level this is a general cocktail-party question ; at another , more immediate one , it sets expectation right in our professional laps . Quite certainly for many the hope is that it might just go away , rather as when a child who knows a monster ... |
@@4012041 Section : exhibition preview MEMORY <p> In order to force the past , when forgetfullness is hemming us in , poets engage us in reimagining . . . . They teach us " the audacities of memory . " One poet tells us the past must be invented : " Invent . There is no feast At the bottom of memory . " Gaston Bachelar... |
@@4012141 Section : first word <p> The record-breaking heat became the primary topic of conversation this past summer at the 50th International Art Exhibition in Venice . The many artists , curators , critics , and collectors who represented the international contemporary art scene had obviously never done fieldwork du... |
@@4012241 Although teaching and research in the arts and sciences are the sine qua non of the modern university in the United States , that tradition has increasingly come under attack. 1 Part of the problem is that many people , including some faculty members , define the teaching and research roles in dichotomous ter... |
@@4012341 In the first part of this article , I tried to address the confusion that many people seem to have about the nature and use of intellect in the arts . My purpose there and in this essay is to discuss this condition , along with other associated dilemmas , what may lie behind them , and how they may be address... |
@@4012441 Saint Francis Borgia at the Deathbed of an Impenitent ( Fig. 1 ) , painted by Francisco Goya ( 1746-1828 ) in 1788 , is one of the most astonishing works in an oeuvre replete with remarkable images . In the decade and a half since its inclusion in Robert Rosenblum 's survey of nineteenth-century art , this ca... |
@@4012541 Sigurd Ibsen and Ringeren , 1898-1899 <p> ON SATURDAY , JANUARY 1 , 1898 , the first issue of Ringeren , a weekly magazine about contemporary politics , culture , and criticism appeared in Kristiania . The magazine 's name was chosen , according to its founder and editor , Sigurd Ibsen , the son of playwright... |
@@4012641 Y a-t-il des mots pour la peinture ? <p> -- Francis Ponge <p> One need only peruse the long list of texts Ponge devoted to art during the latter half of his life to conclude that painting was a subject of predilection for the author of Le Parti pris des choses. 1 Indeed , thanks to the " verbal still lifes " ... |
@@4012741 1 . HOW ARE YOU ? <p> A voice addresses you . Not from clouds , a mountaintop , or a burning bush . From this page . It asks how you are and what you 're up to . It is a friendly , though unfamiliar , voice . You are unsure of how to react . You have an impulse to shout out that you 're fine , you 're reading... |
@@4012841 Among the most stimulating contemporary pronouncements on the subject of the sublime is an interpretation of the phenomenon of violence in mass culture that refers to the notion of " the aesthetics of the sublime " ( Crowther , Critical Aesthetics 129-30 ) . This can help us to realize how much the meaning of... |
@@4012941 THE Libra del Alboraique is a 1480 's anonymous polemical pamphlet directed against conversos. 1 The manuscript , found in the Bibliothque Nationale in Paris , was reprinted in 1954 by Nicols Lpez Martnez . It has been mentioned marginally by a number of historians , but to my knowledge has never been studied... |
@@4013141 In the rain forest of Ivory Coast , chimpanzees meet the challenge of life by hunting cooperatively and using crude tools <p> Tai National Park , Ivory Coast , December 3 , 1985 . Drumming , barking , and screaming , chimps rush through the undergrowth , little more than black shadows . Their goal is to join ... |
@@4013541 Muslim merchants from West Africa expand their markets to New York City . <p> Born in Niger , Issifi Mayaki learned his father 's trade : selling indigenous African cloth , including antique textiles . With his impeccable French , he developed a clientele among French expatriates in the city of Abidjan , Cte ... |
@@4013841 ABSTRACT : The belief that the success of an information system ( IS ) is proportional to the extent of user participation in developing the system has become axiomatic in IS research . Despite this widely held conviction , prior research in participation strategy has yielded mixed results . The purpose of th... |
@@4013941 External , internal , and government auditors increasingly use audit software to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of audits . Incorporating technology such as generalized audit software into the classroom not only exposes students to " tools of the trade , " but , more importantly , also facilitates s... |
@@4014041 Section : research update Modeling A Comet 's Collision <p> The comet fragment approaches with the lightning-quick speed of 60 kilometers/second . As it strikes the first significant amount of atmosphere , it begins to flatten , expanding sideways under the onslaught of thicker and thicker air . Within five s... |
@@4014241 Section : Sky Event <p> The eyes of the world will be on Saturn during December and January . Not only does the ringed planet reach the peak of its current apparition , shining brighter and appearing larger than at any other time of the year , but it also receives the most intense scrutiny ever from a pair of... |
@@4014341 Section : SEARCH &; DISCOVERY <p> On 1 October , four years after the National Science Foundation chose to build a new high-magnetic-field laboratory at Florida State University rather than upgrade the existing Francis Bitter National Magnet Laboratory at MIT ( see PHYSICS TODAY , January 1991 , page 53 ) , t... |
@@4014441 Section : 44th NATIONAL VACUUM SYMPOSIUM OF THE AMERICAN VACUUM SOCIETY McENERGY CONVENTION CENTER SAN JOSE , CALIFORNIA <p> Tuesday , October 21 -- 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m . <p> Wednesday , October 22 -- 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m . <p> Thursday , October 23 -- 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m . A &N; CORPORATION #714 <p> Ma... |
@@4014641 Section : Search and Discovery Unlike Neptune and Uranus , the ice giants of our solar system , the new planets may be rocky " super-earths . " <p> In the past 10 years , some 120 planets have been discovered outside the solar system . With the exception of three lightweight oddballs orbiting a millisecond pu... |
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