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Physics News Update
Number 149 (Story #2), October 28, 1993 by Phillip F. Schewe and Ben Stein

THE SUPERCONDUCTING SUPER COLLIDER has been emphatically terminated by the action of last week's vote in the U.S. Congress. Denied the research tool of their choice, particle physicists must now think of alternatives. It's too soon to decide the issue, but two possibilities would be to participate substantially in the Large Hadron Collider project proposed for CERN in Europe or perhaps to consider building a next-generation linear electron-positron collider.