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The Beam Line often reads like an informal historical record of the laboratory. Like many laypeople working at the laboratory, the editor has great reverence for science, scientific discovery, and the laboratory; at the same time, he sees the practitioners as people, not as gods. Opposite his office is a set of glass doors, which are always open, leading to the offices of the director, associate and deputy directors, and their staff. At least in contrast with the spartan style of the rest of the lab,' the director's office is as imposing as the man who occupies it.
The two particle physics·labs on which my study is concentrated, KEK and SLAC, face quite similar institutional challenges. " These interests concern decisions about, access to, and management of experimental facilities at each laboratory. Senior physicists are forced to reevaluate what is the best organizational environment for physics. Two recurring themes in my account are gender and national culture. In the fifteen years I have been visiting physics labs, the status of women within them has remained unchanged-in spite of major transformations, in North America and Europe, in opportunities for women and attitudes' about their roles.
In the evening community college courses are held, and local civic groups also use the space. Small workshops or conferences are held in the auditorium every few weeks; these run all day for three to five days. These meetings are for physicists, and usually of interest only to people in one particular speciality (theoretical, experimental,or accelerator physics) or concentrating on one topic (such as synchrotron radiation). Every summer the lab hosts a twoweek "summer school" (as do other major labs around the world) for graduate students, "postdocs," and scientists who do not -work at the major labs.