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Government authorities reject the criticism, saying that aid is reaching people but that the need is overwhelming. Women's Issue and Social Development Minister Virginia Borra, in charge of recording supplies as they arrive, said that the government will not turn the crisis into a political shouting match with opponents. "There will be people who complain no matter what we do," she said. Right now Peruvians approve. In a survey published over the weekend, 76% approved of Garcia's reaction to the disaster...
...coffee does when it is stirred in a cup. In perfect deference to the laws of physics, the metal's highly reflective surface takes the form of a parabola, the shape of solid mirrors used in conventional telescopes to focus starlight into a sharp image. Says Ermanno Borra, the Laval astrophysicist who built it: "It's a wonderfully simple arrangement...
...completed in 1974. One solution to the size problem is to make several smaller mirrors work together, simulating a single large one. The computer-synchronized Multiple-Mirror Telescope atop Mount Hopkins in Arizona, for example, has six mirrors and the light-gathering power of a 176-in. instrument. But Borra claims that his mercurial approach will make possible virtually flawless single mirrors at least five times as big as the one at Palomar and can do it simply and inexpensively...
...Borra emphasizes that the concept of a liquid-mirror telescope is not new; he thinks the idea may have occurred to Isaac Newton, who knew about the behavior of spinning fluids and built one of the first reflecting telescopes. Borra knows that Robert Wood of Johns Hopkins University built a primitive model in 1908. "I am not the inventor," says Borra. "But I am the first to make it work and the first to know what to do with...
Barr, D. W.; Bearcovitch, G.; Beauregard, P. G. T.; Bixler, F. D.; Bodman, E. D.; Boggs, S. T.; Borra, M. J.; Brigham, G.; Brooks, R. A.; Bryan, R. C.; Burgess, D., Jr.; Butler...