Word: protons
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Although officially a professor emeritus,Ramsey has continued to play an active role at theUniversity. On Saturday he presented a lecture ata symposium celebrating 50 years of proton beamsat the Harvard cyclotron laboratory...
Although officially a professor emeritus, Ramsey has continued to play an active role at the University. On Saturday he presented a lecture at a symposium celebrating 50 years of proton beams at the Harvard cyclotron laboratory...
...meantime, I've gone on a so-called proton-pump inhibitor, a new kind of prescription drug that cuts down on acid production. I've also been given a list of changes to make in my life-style. Let's see: I don't drink or smoke or eat fatty foods, so I can't really stop. I'm not obese or even a little overweight, so losing weight won't help. That leaves giving up my beloved caffeine and my even more beloved bedtime snack. We'll see. I'm not making any promises...
...Lotus says 10% of new cars made in Europe will carry engines of Lotus design next year. Lotus spokesman Alastair Florance says the company's new modular V-8 motor can be dismantled, reconfigured, expanded or contracted to fit virtually any car. Lotus, which is owned by Malaysian carmaker Proton, earned more money advising other carmakers last year than it did selling its own legendary road burners...
...beyond the solar system. Thousands of light years away in the star system Krion, a fleet of heavily-armed space cruisers began their slow, intergalactic march towards our sun. If these ships are traveling at 4.5 billion miles an hour, are loaded with 2 million tons of high-end proton neutralizers each and are traveling through the Milky Way at vector coordinate 5.88, how long will it take for them to reach Earth? Should the aliens conquer Paris, London, Moscow and New York themselves, or delegate these tasks to a better-trained corp of omnivorous, rock-eating arthropods from...