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...catch these particles, the physicists placed a sealed container of deuterium, or heavy water, 11.2 meters (37 ft.) from the reactor. Immersed in the liquid were ten helium-filled tubes wired to an external oscilloscope. The detection apparatus was shielded in lead and cadmium cylinders and a foot-thick "pot" to block everything but neutrinos. As the particles barreled through the heavy water, some scored bull's-eye hits on the nuclei of its hydrogen atoms, which contain an extra neutron. These collisions produced other particles, including more neutrons that struck the helium-filled tubes and registered...
...officially enrolled in the Class of '83, Rivers has had to make adjustments. Dealing with Blacks from different backgrounds as well as whites here "was a real culture shock," he says. In addition, "I didn't have the apparatus to read the professional cues." Quite simply, he did not know the unwritten rules of behavior which so many students are weaned on, he says, adding that Tilman was instrumental in helping him adjust...
They fly wounded Afghan soldiers out for treatment to their own sophisticated medical facilities. They supply the Vietnamese with everything from military hardware to sewing machines. They advise and train Ethiopia's troops and police and provide the machinery for its new security and intelligence apparatus...
...recent aid efforts have supplemented the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. Planes from the GDR have flown medicine and other supplies to Kabul, and have started to return to East Berlin a number of Afghan wounded. East Germany is reportedly helping the Kabul government revamp and upgrade its secret police apparatus, which has been in disarray since the December invasion. East Germany's assistance to Viet Nam dates back to the 1960s, and has multiplied ever since. Annual aid to Hanoi now totals tens of millions. East German assistance has also extended to Hanoi's client regime in Cambodia...
...America," and it was the Ayatollah who said, "Reject this--Carter is the great Satan," or whatever. So he became out of all of this the personification of the country in a time of trouble. He could have taken that moment and reached beyond the day-to-day political apparatus...