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	Largest particler collider conducts successful test

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9-10-2008 8:22 AM

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                        GENEVA - The world's largest particle collider successfully completed its first major test by firing a beam of protons around a 17-mile underground ring Wednesday in what scientists hope is the next great step to understanding the makeup of the universe.                        
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