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...delicate an instrument is the human ear that at certain frequencies it can discern sound that moves the eardrum a distance only one-tenth the size of a hydrogen atom. The close-up roar of a jet engine amounts to one million billion times this threshhold level; this causes actual pain and soon brings on permanent deafness. Sound vibrations are transmitted by the eardrum and ossicle bones to the inner ear, a bony and membranous structure lined with tiny hairs that connect to the brain's auditory nerve. It is these hairs that are damaged most in noise-induced...
...propose a site at Wavre, just outside Brussels. But the Belgian government, a reluctant host in any case, had other ideas. It suggested a less attractive spot at Chièvres, 35 miles southwest of the capital, a far safer site for Bruxellois in case anyone ever drops an atom bomb on NATO's military headquarters. Understandably, SHAPE recoiled in horror, since for almost two decades its 2,600 officers and men have been happily ensconced just 25 minutes from the Champs-Elys...
...pacifists encountered these forces. Their own appeal was based on their fundamental beliefs, not upon political reasoning or expediency. "Together," said a pamphlet they distributed, "we shall liberate one another from the bondage of insensitivity and restore moral virtue to human affairs. FOR WE SHALL DEVELOP THE SPIRITUAL ATOM BOMB and with it destroy the walls of hate and violence." And the response the received was also based on fundamental beliefs...
...Together, we shall liberate one another from the bondage of insensitivity, and restore moral virtue to human affairs. FOR WE SHALL DEVELOP THE SPIRITUAL ATOM BOMB and with it destroy the walls of hate and violence...
Inside the buildings, the electron beam is fired at targets such as metallic sheets or containers of liquid hydrogen. As a high-energy electron approaches the nucleus of an atom in the target, one of two things happens: it veers off in a different direction, or it actually shatters the nucleus-and the reaction often produces new and different particles that exist for only billionths of a second...