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Kathy Maddock Ellingson

In 1969, the Congressional Joint Committee on Atomic Energy held a hearing at which the physicist Robert Wilson was called to testify. Wilson, who had served as the chief of experimental nuclear physics for the Manhattan Project, was at that point the head of CERN’s main rival, Fermilab, and in charge of $250 million that Congress had recently allocated for the lab to build a new collider. Senator John Pastore, of Rhode Island, wanted to know the rationale behind a government expenditure of that size. Did the collider have anything to do with promoting “the security of the country”?


WILSON: No sir, I don’t believe so.
PASTORE: Nothing at all?
WILSON: Nothing at all.
PASTORE: It has no value in that respect?
WILSON: It only has to do with the respect with which we regard one another, the dignity of men, our love of culture. . . . It has to do with are we good painters, good sculptors, great poets. I mean all the things we really venerate in our country and are patriotic about. . . . It has nothing to do directly with defending our country except to make it worth defending.
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You can't escape from the laws now, baby, of love and gravity.

~
Dixie Chicks
If I Fall You're Going Down With Me
1999, Sony Records



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Finally finished my Pygmy kayak!

GRADES UPDATED SEPTEMBER 30, 2008
The beginning of the year is a transition time for most students.  Those who are struggling will be forgiven low grades for the beginning of the semester.  Students who struggle need to do more work and come in for help during tap or after school.

Shorecrest phone number:  (206) 361-4286
kathy.ellingson@shorelineschools.org
08 - 09 schedule: 
    Period 1 Honors Physical Science
    Period 2 Prep
    Period 3 Honors Physical Science
    Period 4 Physics
    Period 5 Physics
    Period 6 AP Physics