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RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- April 2, 2003 -- In a discovery that is likely to impact fields as diverse as atomic physics, chemistry and nanotechnology, researchers have identified a new physical phenomenon, electrostatic rotation, that, in the absence of friction, leads to spin. Because the electric force is one of the fundamental forces of nature, this leap forward in understanding may help reveal how the smallest building blocks in nature react to form solids, liquids and gases that constitute the material world around us. Scientists Anders Wistrom and Armik Khachatourian of University of California, Riverside first observed the electrostatic rotation in...

<p>MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexico's Senate has passed a measure aimed at eliminating deadlines for Mexicans who live abroad to regain their Mexican citizenship, and allow them to continue to apply indefinitely for dual nationality.</p> <p>A 1998 constitutional amendment allowed five years for Mexicans who had adopted another country's citizenship to apply to regain their Mexican passports, as dual nationals. That five-year deadline expired March 20, and only 67,000 people had applied.</p>

Talks with ten candidate countries continue on Monday, but one country keen on membership will be missing - Turkey, which warns that relations with the EU will be severely damaged if a date for accession is not set soon. The question of Turkey’s application to join the European Union is returning to centre stage as the United States upped its pressure on EU members to proceed and Turkey threatened to review its relations with the EU if a 2003 date on accession talks is not established at an EU summit in Copenhagen this December. A draft for proceedings at the...