Number 151 (Story #2), November 15, 1993 by Phillip F. Schewe and Ben Stein DISPOSSESSED AMERICAN PARTICLE PHYSICISTS are looking around for alternative research venues. British science minister William Waldegrave has suggested informally that "CERN should immediately invite the US in as a member state." Other countries such as Italy and France are not keen on this idea, not wanting the US (or Japan) to gain an undue influence over what until now has been a European venture. Stanford scientist Sidney Drell favors the creation of a whole new, truly worldwide, Center for International Nuclear Research (CIRN). Short term plans must also be pursued. Tom Kirk, who left Fermilab for the SSC, says that some of the scientists who worked with him on the Solenoidal Detector Collaboration (SDC) at SSC may be able to apply the fruits of their efforts (knowledge if not hardware) in some way to the development of detectors at the proposed Large Hadron Collider at CERN. (Physics World, Nov. 1993.)