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... to the other side of the galaxy and be back in time for dinner.” And if wormholes and dimensional portals are simply too small to permit the final exodus from the universe, then there is another ... Jeffrey I n the play As You Like It, Shakespeare wrote the immortal words All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players They have their exits and their entrances During the Middle ... which ours is but one and discuss the possibility of wormholes, space andtime warps, and how higher dimensions might connect them Superstring theory and M-theory have given us the first major step...
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... to the extent possible with existing data; and • Envision the mission and organization of these diverse institutions 10–20 years into thefutureandthe steps needed to get there THE REPORT The ... Foundation, andthe John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation for the financial support they provided for this study andthe many experts who met with the committee to provide their insights on the ... as the best in the world, admired for both their research and their education They are, however, confronted by many pressures: the economic challenges faced by the nation andthe states, the...
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... include the best of our old technologies: pen, paper, the pocket watch, the artist’s sketchpad, andthe old -time mathematician’s slide rule They include all the potent, portable machinery linking the ... of the key environments in which this work formed and developed These include the School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences (and especially the Interact Lab) at the University of Sussex, UK; the ... Space The year is 1960 The pulse of space travel beats insistently within the temples of research and power, andthe journal Astronautics publishes the paper that gave the term “cyborg” to the...
... the Depression They were thus less likely to spend their limited funds on entertainment outside the home Many of the southern theaters, which formed the TOBA, closed their doors The rise of the ... in the North The Apollo in Harlem, the Howard in Washington DC, the Royal in Baltimore, the Uptown in Philadelphia, the Regal in Chicago, and other black theaters made up the Chitlin’ Circuit and ... white (the Herlihys) and one black (the Taylors) According to the network, the story of these families is the story of America.” In actuality the series spent more time on the lives of the white...
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... to the extent possible with existing data; and • Envision the mission and organization of these diverse institutions 10–20 years into thefutureandthe steps needed to get there THE REPORT The ... Foundation, andthe John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation for the financial support they provided for this study andthe many experts who met with the committee to provide their insights on the ... as the best in the world, admired for both their research and their education They are, however, confronted by many pressures: the economic challenges faced by the nation andthe states, the...
... harm These cases exemplify the failure of science and policy to prevent damage to health and ecosystems andthe resulting impacts on health andthe economy In line with the mandate given by the ... obtain the great benefits of development while promoting a clean and healthy environment and ensuring an adequate standard of living in thefuture As the nature of threats to health andthe environment ... of the level of risk andthe strength of evidence and uncertainty, but also of the magnitude, reversibility and distribution of the risk, the availability of opportunities to prevent risk, the...
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