The Olympics of Particle Research  Jeff Lab scientist makes a
big name for herself studying very small things  Comparing the
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility to an island
paradise or the Olympics would be a stretch for most people.
It'd nearly be an understatement for Latifa Elouadrhiri.  Wooed
to the United States by tales of particle experiments at the
lab, Elouadrhiri visited the center just three months after
arriving in the country. She would join its staff seven years
later.  Now a physicist at the lab, she describes the first time
that she saw the center with the kind of reverence that most
people reserve for their first views of Hawaii or the Eiffel
Tower. "It was fascinating ... You hear about Jefferson Lab, you
see it in pictures, but being here is like being on an Olympic
team," she said. "It was exactly where I wanted to be."  Her
enthusiasm isn't all that surprising, considering that one of
her keepsakes isn't a childhood diary but the first physics book
she ever bought. One of her