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Fission v. Fusion. The new-style "fusion" of hydrogen and the old-style "fission" of uranium have a family resemblance. Both depend on the odd and unexplained fact that atomic nuclei do not weigh as much as the sum of the individual nucleons (protons and neutrons) which they contain. It is as if a dozen apples in a paper bag did not weigh as much as the same apples spilled out on the kitchen table and weighed separately...
Accounts of Attlee's unexpected elevation usually contain some such phrase as "despite his colorless personality." As is often the case, the phrase "because of" can substitute for "despite." MacDonald was colorful to the point of flamboyance, and Labor's ranks had loved him dearly. After MacDonald's "betrayal," the embittered Laborites wanted no more color; they wanted a man they could trust. Attlee's sincerity and staying power were patent; the Laborites gave him the leadership when Arthur Greenwood and Morrison, in bitter rivalry, knocked each other out of the ring...
Reluctant Clouds. In arid regions like New Mexico, Langmuir explained, big cumulus clouds often rise high in the air without dropping any rain. In such cases, the air does not contain enough natural nuclei (suitable dust particles) for moisture to condense upon. The warm air from over a sun-heated plain boils upward vigorously, but the moisture in it does not condense until the cold upper levels are reached. Then it condenses suddenly into very small ice particles that drift off at about 35,000 feet, leaving the ground dry, its inhabitants disappointed...
...granite and marble pile with 3,311 rooms and 5,200 windows, covering three full city blocks. From its-vast collection of books and reports, U.S. citizens can learn how to run a pants cleaning shop or whether there is a market for hookah pipes in Nicaragua. Its archives contain patents for ornithopters (beating-wing flying machines) and a "pedal calorenticator" (a flexible rubber tube reaching from the nostrils to the inside of the shoes; the wearer can warm his feet merely by exhaling). In its basement is an aquarium left over from the Bureau of Fisheries (now under...
Unlike its predecessors, the new bill is not punitive, merely investigatory. But it provides for a commission to make "recommendations for legislation" which would presumably contain some form of punishment for teachers and institutions that did not comply with the new laws. President Conant sees the incipient danger of such investigation when he asserts it is "likely to produce more damage than good...