1.   One of its top salesmen, Leonid Stavissky, had worked at a government physics institute in Moscow, U.S. officials say.

2.   The Department of Energy will establish a major physics research institute in Pullman, Wash.

3.   The office sales manager was a Russian national who previously worked at a government physics institute.

4.   The physics institute has never had any desire to retain the nuclear material, its director, Giorgi Kharadze, said in an interview.

5.   It was the most powerful quake to hit Romania this month, the earth physics institute said.