In 2003, when I wrote for The New Yorker about why the Golden Gate was the world's leading suicide magnet, I learned that people jump from it simply because so many other people have jumped from it.
E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet In 2003, when I wrote for The New Yorker about why the Golden Gate was the world's leading suicide magnet, I learned that people jump from it simply because so many other people have jumped from it.
Even researchers who are among the leading proponents of magnet therapy concede that larger and better-controlled studies are needed before this approach can rightfully join the cadre of alternative therapies that are clearly effective.
Of course, the invasion and occupation of Iraq would turn that country into a terrorist magnet, leading to the ultimate safe harbor; a terror caliphate extending over swaths of that country and neighboring Syria.
Create an enticing lead magnet.
After $9 billion and 15 years in just the latest phase of CERN's life, the collider — a multinational collaboration that includes the United States — has been idled by an electrical short involving its colossal magnets, leading some frustrated scientists to ask whether it will ever fulfill the dreams, and justify the money, that have been invested in it.
On 19 September 2008, during the final powering tests of the main dipole circuit in the last sector (3-4) to be powered up, an electrical fault in one of the tens of thousands of connections generated a powerful spark that punctured the vessel of a magnet, resulting in a large release of helium from the magnet cold mass and leading to mechanical damage to ~50 magnets.
Saunders, however, offers the most comprehensive "magnet" programs, leading to certificates or dedicated degrees in technological, occupational or vocational sciences.
Some movement has occurred, but much of it has been little more than the spread of suburbanization into new rings of the expanding metropolitan area; the metropolitan region on the whole continues to be a magnet for leading economic activities, innovation, and entrepreneurship.
But it's still possible to have a perfectly good time at David Leveaux's glossy revival, even now that Antonio Banderas, its original leading man and box-office magnet, has departed.
