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...elevator doors opened into a cavernous room in an underground tunnel outside Geneva. Out came the eminent British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, in a wheelchair as always. He was there to behold a wondrous sight. Before him loomed a giant device called a particle detector, a component of an incredible machine whose job is to accelerate tiny fragments of matter to nearly the speed of light, then smash them together with a fury far greater than any natural collision on earth...
...physicists, who will have no trouble finding jobs even if the SSC construction were to stop suddenly, the lure of the giant collider is irresistible. In fact, the leaders of the 500-scientist teams that will eventually run the SSC's enormous detector experiments are already beginning to organize. One such collaboration is being formed by Ting. Politically shrewd, he has wooed physicists from a number of weapons laboratories and Southeastern universities, which until now have not been powers in the field of particle physics. Observers expect he will run the experiment in the strictly hierarchical fashion he has displayed...
...Jesuits have also criticized the State Department for allegedly intimidating a key witness of the murders into failing six lie detector tests in the U.S. The witness, who was brought to the U.S. after Jesuits said she faced retribution in El Salvador, has claimed she saw 30 armed soldiers in camouflage torture and kill the victims...
During a lie-detector test, DeLisle broke down, admitting that he had deliberately driven into the river. Why? According to Galeski, he wanted "to get rid of his present burdens: his wife and his children." DeLisle, who owes some $13,000 in bills and loans, was charged with four counts of murder and one of attempted murder...
...detector will allow us to look at the bursts in much greater detail, so that we will be able to probe deeper [into] this phenomenon," Jones said. "We don't really understand how nature contrives to give us these neutrons, and that is the puzzle we have to unravel...