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Years of medical service in the Memphis community made them doctors, nurses and educators, but first, they were women.

Anita Vaughn, administrator and CEO of the Baptist Memorial Hospital for Women, moderated yesterday’s event at the Ned R. McWherter Library, dubbed “Healing the Community: The Impact of Women in Healthcare.”

Vaughn and other communi-ty professionals discussed ways women overcame inequality in the field, started healthcare move-ments and increased the quality of life for the underprivileged.

“Today we have prominent women with us who have suc-ceeded in the workplace, where once they would have been con-sidered unsuitable,” she said, cit-ing sectors such as administration, education, oncology, private and public practice, nursing, pediatrics and hospice care. “These women have influenced and enhanced the practice of medicine.”

Most medical schools consist of half men and half women – a giant leap from more than a century ago, when Elizabeth Blackwell became the first female doctor in the U.S., said Marcia Bowden, doctor of internal medicine and owner of Bowden Internal Medicine.

“We are making great strides

in medicine, policies and every-thing,” she said. “In the next 20 years I can see us cheering for a woman as president.”

Angela Watson, doctor of internal medicine at Complete Healthcare Center, said that although women have moved for-ward in the medical field, some patients still visualize doctors as men in white coats.

“You’ll walk into a patient’s room, introduce yourself (as a doc-tor), and they’ll be on the phone and say, ‘My nurse just walked in,’” Watson said. “One lady told me, ‘Go get the real doctor.’”

Watson said it is important for

Former University of Memphis student Devin Jefferson filed a motion for a new trial less than three weeks after a jury convict-ed him on Mother’s Day of the felony murder of Tigers football player Taylor Bradford.

The first of four defendants to be tried in the case, Jefferson, now 23, was automatically sen-tenced to life in prison, where he must serve 51 years in the state penitentiary before he can be considered for release.

He will be 72 years old.An amended motion will be

filed June 28, giving defense attorneys more time to prepare for appeal before a hearing can be set.

In the days following Bradford’s murder in 2007, the former sophomore psychology major admitted orchestrating the robbery that resulted in Bradford being shot to death, but said he was not present and never intended for the 21-year-old line-man to be killed.

Defense counsel Greg Carman said he was still optimistic about the case.

“We have some good issues for appeal,” Carman said.

Co-defendants Daeshawn

Tate and Courtney Washington testified for the prosecution. Tate said Jefferson contacted them about a man with money and showed them where he lived at Carpenter Complex the night of the murder.

Bradford was shot in his right side in front of Carpenter Complex at approximately 9:30 p.m. Sept. 30, 2007, after Tate, Washington and Victor Trezevant, three of Jefferson’s high school friends, attempted to rob Bradford of the $7,400 he won that weekend at Horseshoe Casino in Tunica.

Bradford, a business major, drove off, crossed Central and

lost consciousness while head-ing south on Zach Curlin and crashed into a tree. The shell cas-ing found in the Lincoln Town Coupe was the same caliber as the 9mm Lugar slug taken from Bradford’s body.

Prosecutors Reginald Henderson and Ray Lepone said Jefferson’s guilt was justified because he set the robbery plan in motion, thereby making him criminally responsible for the actions of others.

Defense attorney Charles Mitchell said that in choosing to kill Bradford, the three men were

Students at the University of Memphis can expect less bang for their buck this fall under a plan passed unanimously Tuesday by a Tennessee Board of Regents committee.

Though not final until full board approval June 25, the hikes will raise tuition costs locally between 5 and 9.3 percent for the 2010-2011 academic year, on top of the $29 per semester fee increase already in place at The U of M.

In-state undergraduates taking 12 hours will see a 5 percent increase, paying an additional $161 per semester, $3,390 total, not including on-campus resi-dence fees. Students taking 15 hours will pay $233 more, 7.1 percent, for $3,495.

Undergrads tak-ing 18 hours will pay the most. A 9.3 percent increase will equal $305, or $3,600 total.

The plan includes a second fee increase for the 2011-12 school year at the same levels.

Memphis students will receive the lowest percentage increase, but will ultimately pay more than any other TBR university or community college.

Designed by the TBR’s Business and Finance Committee, the fee plan was proposed to make up for 80 percent of state tax money appropriated from higher education funding over the past three years.

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Devin Jefferson was found guilty in the case of slain U of M footbal player Taylor Bradford.

Anita Vaughn, administrator and CEO of Baptist Memorial Hospital for Women, moderates “Healing the Community: The Impact of Women in Healthcare.”

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I am one of your 2010 M.A.T graduates. I am contacting you in regards to the gradu-ation ceremony that took place on May 8th, 2010. As an honors student, I left the ceremony feeling as if my accomplishments, over the last two and a half years, had been diminished. I assume that this is not the school’s intent, so I felt I would bring it to your attention so that modifications can be made in the future. During my time at U of M, I was able to achieve a 4.0 in the M.A.T. program. As a working adult, I felt proud to be the first in my family graduating with an advanced degree. My parents, grandfather, brother, husband, and mother and father-in-law, came from out of town to help celebrate these accomplishments. My first surprise came when I was not offered any honor or recognition cords. Every semester I received a letter from one of the honor clubs asking me to join. Not once did I receive a letter from the school acknowledging my achieve-ments. Come to find out, if I had paid to join

one of these clubs I would have received a cord, or a drape, for graduation. I could have bought my own honors or club cords, but at that point it was principal. I shouldn’t have to buy something I worked so hard for. My school should have been proud of me, and want me to represent them well, by giving me these cords. My second surprise came when I opened the commencement book; undergraduate honors were listed, but nothing for the advanced degrees. It was explained to me that everyone who was in an advanced degree program was already an honors student because they must maintain a 3.0 to be in the program. In my opinion, there are still large leaps between a 3.0 and 4.0 that should be high-lighted. My third surprise occurred when; at commencement, they asked all of the undergraduates with a 4.0 to stand. I believe there was only a handful. I figured that they would at least do the same for the advanced degree candidates. This never happened. I

was not sure if there were just so many of us with 4.0’s (in which case, the university should step up the level of its classes), or if we just weren’t worth calling attention too. I paid a lot of money and put a lot of sweat in to my diploma and GPA. At my gradu-ation dinner, with family, they questioned, “I thought you had a 4.0. Why weren’t you recognized?” It’s a little embarrassing when I later had to email them my final grades so that they could see my accomplishments. Of course they were already proud, but it was nice for them to see it in black and white, since no one else was acknowledging it. I am disappointed that my University would treat me, and my fellow deserving gradu-ates, this way. I think it’s time that someone look in to how you are treating your gradu-ates as you send them out into the work force as your advocates.

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acting on their own and not on behalf of Bradford.

Tate, Washington and Trezevant are each being held on bonds at or exceeding $1 million and will face their own first-degree murder charges individually. Trezevant, who was implicated as Bradford’s actual shooter, will be first on the docket this winter.

Criminal Court Judge Chris Craft gave jurors the option of convicting Jefferson of several lesser offenses including sec-

ond-degree murder, voluntary manslaughter, reckless homi-cide and criminally negligent homicide, for which Jefferson could have received as a sen-tence of “time already served” and immediately released.

After 10 hours of delibera-tion, the jury of six men and six women said they’d reached a decision, but when questioned separately, one juror stunned the courtroom when he said he did not agree with his fellow jurors.

Craft immediately sent the 12 back for deliberation, and moments later the group indicat-ed a new unanimous guilty ver-dict against Jefferson as charged.

Bradford’s parents, who filed a $4 million wrongful death suit against The University of Memphis, Jefferson and his co-defendants more than two years ago, were present when the final verdict was read.

Jimmie Bradford rubbed a thumb across the large ring given to him as a surprise by his son’s teammates after the New Orleans Bowl in 2008 as his wife clutched a small bouquet of crimson roses.

Marva Bradford lamented the loss of her son that Mother’s Day.

“I will always be Taylor’s mother,” she said.

At The U of M, state funding has been reduced nearly 27 per-cent, or more than $33 million, over the past three years.

David Zettergren, vice presi-dent for business and finance, and University President Shirley Raines released a statement yesterday reiterating The University’s past measures to minimize the effect of dwindling state dollars, including a voluntary faculty buyout during the first year and campus-wide budget reductions.

“We have tried to balance cost-cutting and TBR’s tuition increas-es, keeping the timely graduation of our students as our primary

goal,” Raines said. “At the same time, we are trying to maintain our current jobs, doing our part in the Memphis, Midsouth and state economy.”

She asked for the monetary support of friends, alumni and the community to help offset funding cuts, noting that faculty members have received no pay raises in the last three years.

U of M director of budgeting Sharon Hayes offered little hope for students. She said her office is still reviewing the committee’s rec-ommendations but that hopefully The University would be able to offer some type of supplementary support.

“But at this point, we have no idea what that might mean.”

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Third-year University of Memphis law student Meredith Alston Lucas will spend her summer with the National Symposium Editorial Board of the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy.

“I’m honored to have been selected for the position,” Lucas said. “I think it’ll be a

wonderful experience.” Working with the senior edi-

tor at the journal, Lucus will work from Memphis, submit-ting writings electronically, while working with lawyers and students from around the country.

“It’s all from right here this summer,” she said. “In law school there are a lot of dif-ferent opportunities. I just submitted a writing sample,

resume and cover letter and got it.”

Lucus said she was look-ing forward to learning more about the national legal com-munity through working with the journal.

“I’ll be learning new writing skills and getting to work on some legal documents,” she said. “I’ll be editing documents by some amazing legal profes-sionals.”

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women in healthcare to try to overcome sexism in the medical field to achieve success and hap-piness with their careers.

“The thing we as women have to understand is that not much has changed,” she said. “We have to make the change in ourselves and be consistent, because the only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.”

Linda Lazar, professor of pediatrics at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, said focusing on treating patients instead of feeling pressured to compete with male doctors is of the utmost importance for women in the medical community.

“When taking care of human beings, you have to make sure that you’re always better than you were the day before,” she said. “I don’t worry about being better than a man.”

Panel members also discussed how women have made a positive impact locally by imploring inno-vative ways to approach patient treatments, communication and teamwork.

Dean of University Libraries at The U of M Sylverna Ford said she enjoyed learning about how the seven discussion participants worked, both past and present, to make changes within the Memphis healthcare community.

“One of the things that impressed me was all the different efforts underway to address issues in the Memphis area,” she said.

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The first affordable mass-pro-duced electric vehicles will hit the streets of America later this year. Once the Nissan Leaf begins to make its way from dealerships to consumers, the electric vehicle charging revolution will begin. A new report by Pike Research reveals that there will be an estimated 4.7 million EV charging units in opera-tion worldwide by 2015.

Of these 4.7 million units, about 1 million will be located here in the United States and the remainder elsewhere around the world. One primary differ-ence between the national and international markets is location. The majority of charging sta-tions in the United States will be located at individual residences. Americans are expected to prefer the convenience of charging their vehicles at home.

The Pike Research report indi-cates that about two-thirds of EV charging equipment sales will be in the residential sector. At this time, there is no clear financial benefit for retail outfits to pur-chase an EV charging station. In order to recoup their investment, retailers will need to charge a usage fee. However, it will typi-cally cost consumers less than $2 to fully charge a vehicle at home. With most trips falling within the initial 100-mile range of an EV like the Nissan Leaf, there is little incentive for commercial entities to invest in charging equipment.

In contrast, charging stations in Europe, Asia and other regions will be primarily found in public locations because there will be less access to convenient and easy-to-use residential charging systems.

Not surprisingly, the report predicts that countries in the Asia Pacific region, including China, Japan, and Korea, will be the largest electric vehicle market in the world. Naturally, the region will also be the largest EV charg-ing market in the world. These three countries have pledged

to invest in building the charg-ing infrastructure in the region as well as to provide consumer incentives for the purchase of electric vehicles.

The potential influx of electric vehicles on the road in China is not without controversy, how-ever. A new study suggests that an increase in electric vehicles manufactured at facilities pow-ered by coal is more harmful to the environment than keeping the same amount of gasoline-powered vehicles on the road.

In the study, Environmental Implication of Electric Vehicles in China, researchers report that hybrid electric vehicles would be a better choice than all-electric vehicles in some regions of China, including the cities of Beijing and Shanghai. These two cities are

in regions that receive the vast majority of their electricity from coal-powered facilities.

Overall, the study reveals, “EVs do represent a very promis-ing solution to energy issues due to their solid merits in substitut-ing for petroleum fuels. But for now the high pollution levels of coal-fired power plants will trade off EVs’ potential energy benefits in China.”

While this study suggests that EVs may not be the best long-term solution to reducing carbon dioxide emissions worldwide, one thing is certain — electric vehicles are coming soon to a neighborhood near you. With the increase in EVs comes an increase in charging stations, to the tune of 4.7 million units installed world-wide over the next five years.

Correction:The Feb. 1 article,

“Republicans ready to ‘kick ass,’” incorrectly labeled University of Memphis alumnus

Shannon Glisson as a Democrat and intern

for Congressman Steve Cohen. Glisson was president of the

U of M chapter of Young Republicans for two weeks while

the group reorganized.

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For the first time, physicists have confirmed that certain sub-atomic particles have mass and that they could account for a large proportion of matter in the universe, the so-called dark mat-ter that astrophysicists know is there but that cannot be observed by conventional means.

The finding concerns the behavior of neutrinos, ghost-like particles that travel at the speed of light. In the new experiment, physicists captured a muon neu-trino in the process of transform-ing into a tau neutrino.

Researchers had strongly believed that such transforma-tions occur because they have been able to observe the disap-pearance of muon neutrinos in a variety of experiments.

But the research announced Monday marks the first time that the appearance of a tau neutrino has been directly observed. Physicists from CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) in Geneva and the Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics’ Gran Sasso National Laboratory were involved.

“This is an important step for neutrino physics,” CERN Director-General Rolf Heuer said in a statement. “We’re all looking forward to unveiling the new physics this result presages.”

Astrophysicists have inferred the existence of dark matter from their observations that the

total amount of visible matter is insufficient to account for gravi-tational effects. It is estimated that dark matter accounts for 80 percent of the mass of the universe and visible matter only 20 percent.

The new finding is impor-tant because in the theories now used to explain the behavior of fundamental particles, called the Standard Model, neutrinos have no mass.

But if they have no mass, they cannot oscillate between muon and tau forms. The fact that they do oscillate indicates that they have mass and that the funda-mentals of the Standard Model need some reworking, at the

very least.Neutrinos interact with mat-

ter so weakly that they can travel through the entire Earth with the ease of a light beam trav-eling through a windowpane. They have no electrical charge — hence the name, meaning “lit-tle neutral one.”

Physicists generally don’t see neutrinos. Instead, they observe the debris left behind on the very rare occasions when a neu-trino strikes an atom head on. They now know that there are three types of neutrino: electron, muon and tau, each named for the particle that is produced in the collision.

The new discovery comes from

the infinitely patient and creative researchers in an experiment known as OPERA, for Oscillation Project with Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus.

The project’s source of neu-trinos is a proton accelerator at CERN in Geneva that slams protons into a graphite target, producing particles called pions and kaons that quickly decay into muon neutrinos.

Because the neutrino beam that is created is not affected by elec-trical or magnetic fields, the pro-ton accelerator must be pointed directly at detectors in the labora-tory under Gran Sasso mountain

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Physicists unlock mystery of subatomic particle

By the logic of science, things simply shouldn’t exist. The best scientific minds of several generations have reasoned that shortly after the Big Bang cre-ated the universe, matter and antimatter should have wiped each other out.

So that explains the global chain reaction of excited e-mails among physicists last month, after scientists at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory “opened the box” — their jar-gon for taking a peek at newly crunched data — and raised hopes of some day solving the riddle of existence.

“It’s like looking back to the instant where everything began,” said Joseph Lykken, a theoretical physicist at the sprawling research facility near

Batavia, Ill.Simply put, the Fermi team

sent protons and antipro-tons around its underground Tevatron accelerator ring into a head-on collision, which pro-duced slightly more tiny frag-ments called “muons” than tiny fragments called “antimuons.”

It was a laboratory victory of matter over antimatter, and a minuscule replication of what scientists believe must have hap-pened shortly after the Big Bang, though exactly how matter won out has long confounded them.

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It’s a product like no other — a complete city for a million people.

As tens of millions of people across the developing world migrate from the countryside to new cities, Cisco Systems is help-ing build a prototype here for what one developer describes as an instant “city in a box.” Cisco is wiring every tech nook and cranny of the new city, making it one of the most technologically sophisticated urban centers on the planet.

Delegations of Chinese gov-ernment officials looking to purchase their own cities of the future are descending on New Songdo City, a soon-to-be-com-pleted metropolis about the size of downtown Boston that serves as a showroom model for what is expected to be the first of many assembly-line cities. In addition to state-of-the-art information technology, Songdo will emit just one-third of the greenhouse gasses of a typical city of similar size.

Cities of a million-plus pop-ulation are popping up across the developing world, but the foremost market for the pro-totype here is China, where a massive demographic shift from rural to urban already is underway, requiring hundreds of new cities.

“They come in here and say, ‘I’ll take one of these,’ “ said Richard Warmington, the former head of Hewlett-Packard’s Korea operation and Saratoga, Calif., resident who is now president of Chadwick International School, which is setting up a campus in Songdo.

The potential is so big that executives at Cisco, the key tech partner for the development, get giddy talking about what could be a $30 billion business over coming years for the San Jose, Calif., networking giant. Just a year ago, the usually buttoned-

down Cisco CEO John Chambers engaged in a night of “love shots” — locked-elbow drink-ing toasts — with President Lee Myung-bak to seal the Songdo deal Korean-style.

It’s easy to see why Cisco is intoxicated with the possibilities: According to a study by invest-ment bank CIBC World Markets, governments are expected to spend $35 trillion in public works projects during the next 20 years. In Songdo alone, Cisco sold 20,000 units of its advanced video conferencing system called Telepresence — a billion-dollar order — almost before the ink had dried on the contract, said developer Stan Gale, the chief visionary of the project.

“Everything will be connect-ed — buildings, cars, energy — everything,” said Wim Elfrink, Cisco’s Bangalore-based chief globalization officer. “This is the tipping point. When we start building cities with technology in the infrastructure, it’s beyond my imagination what that will enable.”

The audacious plan is rising up from former mud flats along the Yellow Sea. Cisco and New York City-based Gale International hope the privately funded $35 billion Songdo project leads to at least 20 similar developments in China, India, Vietnam and other countries in coming years. Much of Songdo will be completed in 2014.

“Five hundred cities are need-ed in China; 300 are needed in India,” said Managing Partner Gale, an exuberant, arm-waving developer who believes Songdo will be his legacy.

The project calls for wired everything — an urban center where networking technology is embedded into buildings from the ground up and every home, school and government agency is equipped with sophisticated Telepresence video technology — what in Cisco mantra is called Smart+Connected Communities.

The idea was 10 years in the making for Gale, though Cisco signed on just two years ago. The concept was inspired not just by mass demographic shifts but also new technology that can significantly reduce energy use and pollution while transform-ing how people interact with the world around them.

For Cisco, Songdo represents more than a chance to sell hard-ware. The San Jose-based com-pany envisions its technology as the connector for all aspects of urban life: government services, utilities, entertainment, health care, education. The company envisions new business mod-els built around its Telepresence technology — say a yoga class beamed into living rooms or medical checkups done remote-ly. All of these would be man-aged through a single Internet network, and Cisco would col-lect a recurring fee for maintain-ing the services, almost like a utility.

“It will be like paying a main-tenance fee once a month,” said Christopher Khang, a Cisco vice president based in Singapore. “It’s a radically new business model for the company.”

Building this technology into new construction adds relatively little to the overall construction

costs, he said. “But the benefits are going to be huge. I believe we are the only company that can provide this holistic (tech-nology) environment.”

It looks good on paper. But will those Chinese officials buy this tech utopian vision?

“It seems a little specula-tive,” Broadpoint AmTech ana-lyst Mark McKechnie said. Still, he added, “If you want to be around, you have to have a 10-year plan. If this doesn’t develop, at least they’ll learn something new they can apply to different businesses.”

There’s also a question of how many whistles and bells develop-ing countries are willing to pay for. For some local officials from China and elsewhere, Songdo, which has a 100-acre park and Jack Nicklaus golf course, is a bit like visiting a luxury auto dealer when all you can afford is a Honda Civic.

Now Cisco is using its Shanghai World Expo pavil-ion, which displays a compel-

ling video detailing a totally linked city, to sell its technol-ogy. Government officials are then invited to hop on a plane for the hour-and-a-half flight to Incheon.

“There will be at least 100 new cities with a minimum popula-tion of one million each being built in China in the next three years,” said Anthony Elvey who, as director of Cisco’s Expo pavil-ion, gives tours to Chinese pro-vincial officials, each hoping to out-do the other in creating an instant city that will attract job-creating investments.

So far, Cisco has signed deals with two Chinese municipali-ties. It will be the main network-ing infrastructure provider for Chongqing, which has a popula-tion of more than 31 million in southwestern China. And Cisco and Gale will provide a city-scale development in Changsha in Hunan Province.

“These guys can snap their fingers and put all this infra-structure in place,” Elvey said.

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(Above) Women pick weeds in Central Park in Songdo

IBD (International Business District), Incheon, Korea,

May 12, 2010. A green oasis in the in the middle of the

city, Central Park comprises almost 10 percent of Songdo

IBD’s total acreage. The six mixed-use towers and

hotel in the background are designed by HOK New York.

(Right) An iPhone app controls the lights in Gale International’s First World residential unit, in Songdo

IBD (International Business District), Incheon, Korea,

May 12, 2010. First World is the first completed residen-

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Insta-cityAsian urbanization begets supermodern boom townsBY JOHN BOUDREAUSan Jose Mercury News

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Let’s put the shortcomings of the new “Karate Kid” in perspective. The 1984 original, directed by “Rocky’s” Oscar-winner John G. Avildsen, was hardly a cultural treasure. It was wildly implausible and corny, but if it hit you at the right point in your underdoggy adolescence, it generated warm memories.

The remake is equally far-fetched, but lacks the innocence that made the first film so lik-able. The new “Kid” feels like

a big-budget audition reel for sweet Jaden Smith, with Will and Jada Pinkett Smith hover-ing above the bloated 135-min-ute project as doting parents/ producers. An air of calculation overhangs the whole enterprise like a storm cloud.

The film follows 12-year-old Dre Parker (Smith) and his single mother, Sherry (Taraji P. Henson) on a job trans-fer from decaying Detroit to vibrant Beijing. Dre’s transition is complicated by his lazy, dis-respectful nature, his crush on his Chinese classmate Meiying (Wenwen Han), and vicious

bullying by schoolyard thug Chen (Zhenwei Wang) and his henchmen. Dre begs his mom to enroll him in a kung fu academy for self defense, but finds an unlikely mentor in his apartment’s laconic handy-man, Mr. Han (Jackie Chan). In the course of many training montages, he drops his brat-ty attitude, absorbs a dose of Buddhist humility, and learns to stand up for himself.

Smith is a cute kid, but fun-damentally miscast. The pro-tagonist in the original film was

The good news: “The A-Team” is better than this spring’s simi-larly-themed “The Losers.”

The bad news: Not by much.Based on the hugely popular

‘80s TV series about ex-black ops types who turn mercenary, the film hits the big screen running.

Which is to say that director Joe Carnahan (“Narc,” “Smokin’ Aces”) tries to have a ball in the air at all times, to keep us divert-ed with frantic action or eccentric humor. It works intermittently, but after a while it becomes all too obvious that the sleight of hand masks the absence of any-thing truly interesting.

Carnahan and his co-writ-ers (Brian Bloom, Skip Woods) make their film an origins story of sorts. As it begins, the thoughtful, cigar-loving Col. John “Hannibal” Smith (Liam Neeson) and his cohort, Lt. Templeton “Faceman” Peck (Bradley Cooper), are still with the U.S. Army. They’re on assignment to clean up a Mexican drug cartel.

Along the way they meet a former Army Ranger, B.A. Baracus (Quinton “Rampage” Jackson), and spring from a men-tal hospital their fourth member,

pilot “Howling Mad” Murdock (Sharlto Copley).

The plot proper has the four betrayed and framed by a rogue CIA agent (a pleasantly smarmy Patrick Wilson). Caged in vari-ous military prisons, our four heroes must escape and then get to work to clear their names and trap the bad guy. Their goal is to recover plates for counterfeit $100 bills which, in the wrong hands, could bring down the U.S. government.

Oh, yeah ... they’re being tracked and, eventually, abetted by Faceman’s old flame, mili-tary intelligence gal Charisa Sosa (Jessica Biel).

There’s lots of action, most of it so badly edited you can’t tell the good guys from the bad guys.

More successful are a couple of performances.

Cooper, a hot property since last summer’s “The Hangover,” cements his reputation as a sexy leading man oozing wise-guy attitude. All buffed up (the film gives him plenty of opportunities to go shirtless) and his mug plas-tered with a satyr’s grin, Cooper energizes even his lamest lines.

The real surprise is Copley as the certifiable Murdock. The South African non-actor who made his feature debut in last

year’s “District 9,” Copley proves that impressive performance wasn’t a fluke.

Here he gives us the human version of Daffy Duck, an eye-winking, eye-rolling hyperactive nut case who often replaces his

Deep South drawl with a variety of ethnic accents. Copley is no lon-ger a non-actor — it will be fun to see what he comes up with next.

Neeson is solid but unremark-able (basically he’s a straight man).

Former mixed martial arts star Jackson is just OK; he lacks Mr. T’s glower, and a subplot that has a conflicted B.A. converting to Gandhian nonviolence is enough to send “A-Team” loyalists head-ing for the exits.

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Bradley Cooper as Templeton “Face” Peck; from left, UFC light heavyweight Quinton “Rampage” Jackson as B.A. Baracas; Sharlto Copley as H.M. “Howling Mad” Murdock; and Liam Neeson as Col Hannibal Smith star in Fox’s $100-million movie reboot of “The A-Team.”

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‘Karate Kid’ remake: wax on and walk outBY COLIN COVERTStar Tribune

Jaden Smith stars as “Dre” on the Great Wall of China in Columbia Pictures’ “The Karate Kid.”

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ery by Fermilab’s DZero team seems statistically solid. If it makes it past critical peer review, it will lead to a re-evaluation of existing theories and, possi-bly, a deeper understanding of physics and why things exist. It certainly will inspire a barrage of additional supercollider tests, as other labs try to verify the dis-covery or shoot it down.

Either way, it could be one incremental step toward the holy grail of atomic physics: the long-sought discovery of the elusive “Higgs boson,” a theo-retical particle assumed to be the fundamental building block of all matter.

“It’ll be written about in physics books a hundred years from now,” said Zoltan Ligeti, a physicist at the California Institute of Technology who was not involved in the Fermilab experiment.

For decades, Fermilab was the world’s pre-eminent center for subatomic particle research. But increasingly, the expectation was that the next big break-through in physics would come from a new and more power-ful European accelerator, the

Large Hadron Collider outside Geneva, which has begun over-shadowing Fermi and draining its talent.

So scientists at the older facil-ity just west of Chicago have expressed a quiet satisfaction with the home team victory, which could help its efforts to remain relevant and fund-worthy.

In a Web site posting, Fermilab Director Pier Oddone said “I am delighted to see yet another exciting result from the Tevatron.” An official from the U.S. Department of Energy, which funds Fermilab, echoed that pride, saying the “result underlines the importance and scientific potential of the Tevatron program.”

The question of existence is something that humans have wondered about ever since there were humans to wonder: “Why is there something rather than noth-ing?” as the 17th century philoso-pher Gottfried Leibniz put it.

Clearly, things do exist — evidenced by the facility near Batavia, where bison graze above a subterranean, four-mile-circumference accelerator, or the tidy homes in nearby suburbs where Fermilab staff members live. But, theoretically, they shouldn’t.

One of physics’ foundation

stones is the concept of a sym-metrical universe. Everything has its mirror opposite, like humans’ left and right hands. As schoolchildren learn, Newton said every action has an equal and opposite reaction.

“A good example is the Big Bang,” Lykken said, putting his colleagues’ discovery into con-text. “The universe began as a perfectly symmetrical object, a ball of energy.”

The problem lies in what hap-pened next. That energy con-densed into matter but also into its opposite, antimatter. The two being mutually destructive, they should have canceled each other out. Instead, Lykken noted, mat-ter joined together in ever larger concentrations — nuclei, atoms, stars, galaxies.

Fermilab had that kind of question in mind 27 years ago when it built the Tevatron to imitate Big Bang-like collisions in miniature. The tentative breakthrough came last month when some of the Dzero team’s 500 scientists looked at the latest of eight years’ worth of results from collisions, monitored in a Buck Rogers-looking apparatus in a warehouse-type building atop one of the rings.

In the game of physics, the ball now passes from research-

ers to theoreticians like Lykken to figure out how the new data jibe with scientists’ overall understanding of the universe, a collection of theories known as the Standard Model. His office at Fermilab is dominated by an enormous old-fashioned black-board covered with mathemati-cal expressions and graphs, each a trial-fit interpretation of exper-imental data, and perhaps such a chalk scrawl will someday explain how matter prevailed.

The discovery someday could have practical spinoffs, but it also could have immedi-ate implications, among them in the clamorous intersection of politics and religion. Lykken hypothesized that proponents of “intelligent design” could seize upon the new findings to further support their argument that the laws of nature are so fine-tuned, they must be the handiwork of a creator.

From a scientific perspective, he postulated there could be an infinite number of universes, some vastly different and oth-ers quite similar, though not exactly.

“I can imagine a universe exactly like ours,” Lykken said. “Except that the Cubs win a World Series.”

In the course of their normal

work, theoreticians and research-ers freely exchange ideas in a regular rhythm of intellectual interaction — except when a big breakthrough like the recent one is at hand.

“For about 10 days we kept quiet about it, not talking to other physicists, even those here at Fermi,” said Stefan Soldner-Rembold, a member of the research group.

Once their data and logic had been double-checked, the research team invited colleagues to a Friday evening wine-and-cheese party, a tell-tale method of tipping off colleagues.

Lykken was away at a sci-entific conference, half-listening to a panel presentation while checking e-mail on a laptop computer when his invitation arrived on his screen. The title of the presentation at the Fermi bash began with two exciting words — “evidence for ... “

As a group, physicists don’t indulge in frequent displays of emotion. But Lykken wasn’t the only Fermi scientist elated by what was found when “the box” was opened on May 5. Soldner-Rembold said he got goose bumps.

“I said, ‘Wow!’ “ recalled Dmitri Denisov, a physicist pres-ent at the opening.

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453 miles away in central Italy, between the towns of L’Aquila and Teramo. When neutrinos are produced, they continue in the same direction of the proton beam, arriving at Gran Sasso in only 2.4 milliseconds.

The detector at Gran Sasso is a massive apparatus made up of 150,000 “bricks” of pho-tographic film interleaved with lead sheets. The total mass of the bricks, which are accompanied by electronic detectors and other apparatus, is about 1,300 tons.

OPERA began operating three years ago and has since sent “billions of billions” of muon neutrinos to Gran Sasso. But the interaction of the neutrinos with the lead is so weak that the first tau neutrino has only just been observed.

“We are fully confident that this first event will be followed by others that will fully demon-strate the appearance of neutrino oscillation,” said OPERA spokes-man Antonio Ereditato.

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in his mid-teens, a young man in the making. Here, prepu-bescent seventh-graders enact heart-thumping romance and bone-thumping beat-downs, which makes for uncomfortable viewing. Ironically, Smith radi-ates a self-possessed confidence that makes him seem less vul-nerable than his puppyish pre-decessor, Ralph Macchio. The little leading man has a couple of scenes here where he weeps with a doe-eyed professional-ism that verges on the robotic. He’s impressively agile in his endless training scenes, but his acting muscles are not so limber. His mushy kissing scene with his girlfriend looks more painful than the endless walloping he gets from the brutish Chen.

And what about Jackie Chan? He is stuck with some Zen howlers here, explaining how kung fu is like life. His tragic back story, like the film’s need-less excursions to the Forbidden

City and the Great Wall, really ought to have been saved as DVD extras. Chan is playing an older, wearier character here, and his shambling body lan-guage is persuasive. Either he nailed this duffer’s physicality or all those stunt injuries are finally catching up with him.

The climactic scene, the stand-ing-room-only little league kung fu championship, is a numbing flurry of fast cutting, ear-bruis-ing sound effects and spinning crane kicks. Director Harald Zwart (“The Pink Panther 2”) is better at drawing out the tension before the bouts, when the opponents eye one another warily. The David and Goliath mismatch plays out as it must, but it’s hard to shout approval for pint-sized lads clobbering each other.

The recent superhero spoof “Kick-Ass” had the wit to turn that kind of child-abuse imag-ery into a grand sick joke. “The Karate Kid” invites us to cheer the spectacle for real, and even when the good guy triumphs, that spoils the fun.

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Jackie Chan, left, as “Mr. Han” and Jaden Smith, as “Dre Parker” star in Columbia Pictures’ “The Karate Kid.”

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