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Nature 404, 907 (27 April 2000) | doi:10.1038/35010207

Big can still be great

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High-energy physicists in the United States need to take time to reach agreement on new goals.

The profound challenges of high-energy physics continue to attract some of the best minds. Its experimental successes have been triumphs of human ingenuity, its costs by and large tightly controlled, its discoveries a wonderful blend of the predicted and the wholly unexpected.