Driven to New York in an armored white stretch limo, Mr. Rushdie was installed in the presidential suite of a hotel where there were "bulletproof padded mattresses covering all the windows" and "perhaps two dozen men holding gigantic science-fiction weapons scattered through the rooms".
I enter the gigantic golden science dome at the heart of CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics.
The authorities in Warsaw plan a museum about the Communist era in the gigantic Palace of Science and Culture, built in the 1950's by Stalin, the PAP news agency said.
Despite the gigantic leaps made by science in the last few decades, a comprehensive explanation of what exactly happens to us when we die is yet to emerge.
Obama has a mixed record on this front (remember the gigantic, wasteful, and anti-science fight Kathleen Sebelius waged on the "Plan B" morning-after pill?), but he has been getting better and better over the past few years.
His turn towards speculation can only be interpreted as an intellectual anticipation during an intermediate phase of the history of science, when a gigantic amount of research work was still to be accomplished, so that empirical theories could neither be established nor sufficiently guaranteed.
This process, aided by wonderful progress in science, is assuming gigantic proportion and power, causing the upset of man's moral balance, obscuring his human side under the shadow of soul-less organization".
"As I understand it, the marchers want this to be a gigantic endorsement of the idea of science, the idea of verifiable evidence," Holt said.
A science teacher rolled out a gigantic student-created robot.
The big losers would be researchers working on the U.S. team for ITER, the gigantic fusion reactor to be built in Cadarache, France (Science, 13 June, p. 1405).
