Word: complex
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...simulate the thermal shock of a nuclear blast. It can, that is, with the aid of a super reflector of the sort that has been set up by French scientists high in the Pyrenees. Ten years in the building, the world's largest solar furnace is a complex of nearly 20,000 mirrors and can concentrate enough sunlight to create temperatures in excess...
...devices, the patient is sufficiently shielded from the heat of the radioactive source by its plastic container. That heat is directed to a thermocouple that generates 200 milliwatts of electricity. This powers a tiny generator that sends an impulse to the heart through internally implanted wires. Both of the complex pacemakers are small. The French device is cylindrical and about the size of a 35-mm. film cassette; the American is rectangular, half the size of a cigarette pack. The half life of Pu-238 (the time in which it loses half of its radioactivity) is almost 90 years...
...well trigger trouble at some of U.C.'s more combustible campuses such as Berkeley and Santa Barbara. Keeping her may well cause a backlash in the June primary election, when California voters will be asked to approve a $246 million bond issue for a badly needed health sciences complex at U.C.L.A. "I like my job," says Chancellor Young, who gets $41,000 a year. "I can't think of anything I'd rather do." But unless he finds a way to please everyone, he says, "I could see the board terminating...
...villa, which used to echo with the pop of Moët et Chandon corks and the giggles and squeals of female employees, was hushed. Every day last week, the 23 directors of Investors Overseas Services Ltd., holding company for Cornfeld's $2 billion European mutual-fund complex, sipped black coffee and mineral water well into the night as they sought a way out of the company's financial crisis. They were trying to do so without surrendering control to the various European...
Charles Forbin (Eric Braeden) is the creator of a massive computer complex called Colossus, a faultless system that manages America's defense by doing everything from monitoring intelligence data to launching missiles. Colossus is a self-contained unit that, once sealed, can never be tampered with again, not even by Forbin himself. "Can it think creatively?" a journalist asks the good doctor. "No," is the firm reply. The fool...