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...sadistic Dotheboys Hall and of the innumerable others who continue to suffer poverty and abuse, in Dickens' time and our own. Fans of the original will find few differences in the new staging, again by Trevor Nunn (Cats) and John Caird (Les Miserables). Most of the performances seem like carbon copies. Two are distinct improvements. As Vincent Crummles, proprietor of a hammily inept acting troupe, Tony Jay is a figure of majesty, an artist surrounded by buffoons whose incompetence he must overlook because some of the worst are members of his family. As Lord Frederick Verisopht, the luxuriating rake...
...Like the Chernobyl facility, the Windscale Pile No. 1 plutonium-production plant north of Liverpool, England, used graphite to slow down neutrons emitted during nuclear fission. When workers discovered a fire in the reactor, they sprayed it with carbon dioxide but failed to quench the blaze. By the time the fire was put out with water, radioactive material had contaminated 200 sq. mi. of countryside. Officials banned the sale of milk from cows grazing in the area for more than a month. The government estimated that at least 33 cancer deaths could be traced to the effects of the accident...
...time of Columbus. In 1974, however, some particles of ink from the map were found to be titanium-based. This meant, experts said, that the ink was of 20th century vintage and the map a fraud. But the Davis team, using their cyclotron technique, proved the ink was carbon based, with titanium present only in trace amounts. Says Cahill: "We feel that the question of the map's authenticity is once again open...
Even fragments of the jealously guarded Dead Sea Scrolls have made the trip to Davis, where researchers confirmed that the documents had been preserved by being soaked in salt water, probably from the Dead Sea. They also found that earlier scrolls were written in the purest carbon-based inks. But ink on the later scrolls contained elevated levels of copper. The significance, Schwab speculates, is that a change in rabbinical decree might have allowed the substitute ink to be used if none other was available...
Pioneer will continue to observe Halley's, measuring water loss and looking for oxygen, carbon, sulfur and other elements in the coma's gases, until March 6, when the sun will begin blocking the Venusian view of the comet. On that day, however, the first of an international flotilla of spacecraft will take over Halley's vigil. The Soviet probe Vega 1 will fly through the coma, passing within 6,000 miles of the nucleus. It will be followed by another Soviet craft, two Japanese probes, and the European Space Agency's Giotto, which will make the most daring pass...