A scheming daughter and her weird sisters; ne'er-do-well brothers-in-law; an unknown half-brother; a nefarious security officer; a flaky, jealous ex-wife; and more mix together to yield a murderous brew that will have readers' hearts racing like those of horses on the fast track.
McMillan and several scientists, including Philip H. Abelson, attempted again to determine what was producing the unknown half-life.
Although Fermi was reluctant to publicize such a claim, after his team observed several unknown half-lives in the uranium bombardment products that did not match those of any known isotope, he published a paper entitled Possible Production of Elements of Atomic Number Higher than 92 in June 1934.
A month later, the almost totally unexpected discovery of nuclear fission by Hahn, Meitner, and Otto Frisch put an end to the possibility that Fermi had discovered element 93 because most of the unknown half-lives that had been observed by Fermi's team were rapidly identified as fission products.
For some unknown reason, half its arms are black and the other half brown.
It was a gift to her husband, the second world war airman and leading horticultural economist Roger Folley, and its whereabouts had been unknown for half a century.
Mr. Lavrentyev's main goal is to help the families of those whose fate remains unknown (roughly half are Russian and the others are from former Soviet republics).
And Oprah's big disclosure from yesterday's show: she has a previously unknown younger half sister, whom her mother gave birth to and put up for adoption when Winfrey was nine years old and living with her father.
Mr. Forrester is still unknown to half the voting public in New Jersey, according to recent polls, and Mr. Lautenberg has quickly begun trying -- as Mr. Torricelli did -- to define Mr. Forrester as a conservative extremist who is out of touch with the state's generally centrist electorate.
"Così Fan Tutte" was virtually unknown a half-century ago, considered a trivial farce scarcely worth reviving.
There is a powerful moment when a large ball rolls across the set, upstage, suggesting the deliciously unknown and half-promising revelation.
