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L.A. Theatre Works moving to UCLA for 2011-12 season
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'Faust In Copenhagen' is a revealing read
Modern educators emphasize the concept of continuing education, which encourages all citizens to keep an active mind throughout life. This is a worthy goal as the inevitable decline takes its toll. This awareness has motivated extensive reading in several...Tags: University of Pennsylvania, Philosophy, Applied Physics, Continuing Education, Enrico Fermi
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Five ideal stage roles for George Clooney
Culture MonsterGeorge Clooney has three new movies making the international festival rounds -- "Up in the Air," "Fantastic Mr. Fox" and "The Men Who Stare at Goats" -- but maybe what he really wants to do is return to the stage....... -
Book Review: A history of the upending of physics in "Quantum"
Quantum
Einstein, Bohr, and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality
Manjit Kumar
W.W. Norton, 448 pp.; $27.95
If thinking about the quantum theory doesn't make you schwindlig (dizzy), then you haven't understood it, Niels Bohr, its great...Tags: Trips and Vacations, Science, Applied Physics, Wolfgang Pauli, Manhattan (New York City)
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Aage Bohr dies at 87; Danish physicist and Nobel Prize winner
Aage Bohr, the Danish theoretical physicist whose explanation for the shape of the atomic nucleus won him a share of the 1975 Nobel Prize in physics, died Sept. 8 in Copenhagen. He was 87.
Bohr was part of an even more elite group, one of only seven...Tags: Awards and Prizes, Applied Physics, Death, Denmark, Nobel Prize Awards
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'The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom' by Graham Farmelo
The Strangest Man
The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac,
Mystic of the Atom
Graham Farmelo
Basic Books: 540 pp., $29.95
It's hard to imagine a more formidable subject for a biographer. Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac (1902-84) was a pioneer of quantum theory in...Tags: Stranger Than Fiction, Tallahassee (Leon, Florida), Forehead, Applied Physics, Awards and Prizes
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The Heisenberg primaries
MIKE MURPHY is a Republican political consultant whose clients have included Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sen. John McCain and former Gov. Jeb Bush. MARK MELLMAN is a Democratic pollster who has represented Sen. Harry Reid, Sen. Barbara Boxer and New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine, among others.IN THE FIRST 100 days of 2007, the big field of Republican and Democratic candidates running for president collectively spent well over $50 million campaigning, made hundreds of stump speeches in Iowa and New Hampshire and endured several nationally...Tags: Barbara Boxer, Republican Party, John McCain, John Kerry, Jon Corzine
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'Beyond Uncertainty' by David C. Cassidy
Beyond Uncertainty
Heisenberg, Quantum Physics,
and the Bomb
David C. Cassidy
Bellevue Literary Press: 480 pp., $27
In June 1925, while recuperating from hay fever on the pollen-free island of Helgoland in the North Sea, Werner Heisenberg conceived...Tags: Applied Physics, Civil Unrest, Literature, Germany, Science
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Hugely complex, 'Copenhagen' resonates physical force
Tribune arts criticThe Chicago actor P.J. Powers has one of those bubbly voices inclined toward the comic gurgle. And that made him seem a strange casting choice to play the German physicist Werner Heisenberg in Michael Frayn's "Copenhagen," a mind-twisting, head-...Tags: Science, Applied Physics, Copenhagen (Denmark), Judaism, Religious Conflicts
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Unreal TV: They know we're watching
Men and women eating Madagascar hissing cockroaches is wildly funny, especially during the gag-reflex slo-mo replay. Washed-up celebrities living together for 10 days in a California mansion once owned by Glen Campbell is pointless and sad, especially...Tags: Television, Corbin Bernsen, Game Shows, Schools, The Bachelor (tv program)
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Get tickets now
These five promising productions (in no particular order) will command high interest. 1. "Flung," by the American Theater Company Begins: Feb. 6 Why: This play about four adult children coming to terms with their father's death is a major new work...Tags: Brian Dennehy, Music Theater, Russia, Eugene O'Neill, Goodman Theatre
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Movie review: 'What the Bleep Do We Know?'
TRIBUNE ARTS CRITIC2 ½ stars (out of 4) At long last, the self-help movie. Actually, there's a great deal worth recommending about "What the Bleep Do We Know?" It's just that the film's promoters are claiming a little too loudly that the movie "will change your life,"...Tags: PBS (tv network), Elaine Hendrix, Philosophy, Applied Physics, Drama (genre)
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