Cafeteria Picnic Area to be Revamped
By Mason Inman
 The Cafeteria’s outdoor seating area is headed for an overhaul this
summer. Site Engineering and Maintenance (SEM) will resurface the area
and replace the tables to make a cleaner, more pleasing eating area that
should stay in good shape for years to come.
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Tests Matter-Antimatter Theory in New Ways
By Kate Metropolis
A physicist in the twenty-third century telephones her automobile
mechanic. “Hello,” she says, “I’ve been having trouble with my new car.
It’s a red Alpha Romeo. Any chance you can fix it? Oh, by the way, it’s
made out of antimatter.”
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NLC Team Achieves Key Milestone for
‘Warm’ Linear Collider By
Heather Rock Woods
 More than 2,600 physicists agree that the hunt for heavier particles,
dark matter and supersymmetry requires an international linear collider
(LC)—but the open question is whether to use ‘warm’ or ‘cold’ technology
to accelerate the electrons and positrons to the massive energies
needed.
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A 1960’s Dream Comes True
By Davide Castelvecchi
Testing Albert Einstein’s ideas was never going to be easy, but Gravity
Probe B (GP-B) turned out to be possibly the hardest—and certainly the
longest-running—NASA experiment in history.
After more than 40 years of research and
development, a Delta II rocket finally took the three ton, $700 million
probe into orbit on April 20. Its 18-month mission is to measure some of
the most subtle predictions of Einstein’s theory of relativity.
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