Word: explainers
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...concealed plateaus in the remote mountains. But few experts can understand the contention of both Carter and Brown that the Tehran phase of the plan would have been easier than getting the assault team into position in the desert in the first place; both of them have refused to explain why they think so. Even some of the military planners concede that the complex mission violated an old Army rule called KISS, meaning "Keep it simple, stupid...
...detection feat, he found that the erstwhile ghosts do indeed seem to have substance. Not much even on the nuclear scale, perhaps only one ten-thousandth of the mass of the electron, but big enough to stir the world of physics. If his results are right, they may help explain the sun's puzzling behavior and perhaps hint at the universe's ultimate fate...
...matter and perhaps find an underlying unity in the forces governing it. Says Nobel Laureate Sheldon Glashow: "With the discovery, we are at the root of what matter is made of and what the rules are by which elementary constituents are held together." The Reines theory could also explain why earlier experiments had detected a fraction of the expected flood of neutrinos from the nuclear fires of the sun. This had caused some scientists to offer the chilling thought that the sun is cooling. Reines' explanation: the missing neutrinos may have changed flavor...
...fascinates most of us voyeurs, as does Walter C. Langer's secret wartime report on Hitler (eventually published as The Mind of Adolf Hitler) which heaps much blame on mummy for six million deaths. But childhood curiosity sketches, in the end, serve no greater historical purpose; Mazlich does not explain Watergate, Langer predicts Hitler's suicide but not Germany...
...have been exposed so often and thoroughly that only one real mystery is left. Why does society let these institutions persist as they are? The country's continual resistance to substantial prison reform is not easy to understand. Present building plans alone prove that stinginess does not really explain it. Real reform might save money, but it is as though the public remains somehow blind to the situation. Prison, after all, has become a symbol of society's stern feelings against crime. And most Americans probably carry in mind not an actual institution but a symbolic prison...