In the past year, Dr. Ting himself was responsible for another delay in the project, deciding to replace the instrument's huge superconducting magnet with a weaker one.
The program has gone through tumultuous times lately, with Bell deciding to replace Ann Curry with Savannah Guthrie as co-host, and with ABC's "Good Morning America" often surpassing the once-unbeatable "Today" as the No. 1 morning show.
But by deciding to replace Ecuador's currency with the American dollar, President Jamil Mahuad has thrust his nation onto center stage of a heated, continent-wide debate about monetary policy and economic relations with the United States.
At every tournament since 1986, the England manager has made dramatic changes to tactics, personnel or both after one dodgy result in the group stages, and it seems Capello has done the same by deciding to replace Robert Green with David James for tonight's musn't-lose match against Algeria.
In 1984, when deciding to replace its Patton tanks, the Spanish government declared its intention to produce a whole new main battle tank locally, since known as the Lince.
