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The tendency for the world to be sprinkled with small countries has recently accelerated, and is disconcerting, but may yet offer a solution for British Ulster, where 26 people have been killed since the year began.
Despite resistance, there is a revolution in progress among Hungary's research community. The signs are promising that the legacy of Soviet-style inefficiency will give way to a brighter future.
Is there some impending crisis in the relationship between particle physics, neatly but incompletely described, and the qualitative properties of the Universe at large?
