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They started by barraging their rubidium atoms with lasers, slowing them to a crawl (heat is really just the motion of atoms and molecules; slowing therefore equals cooling). Then they put the atoms in a magnetic "bottle" that allowed the faster-moving, more energetic atoms to escape; those left behind were cooler. Finally, in a leap of ingenuity that enabled this scientific team to outflank its rivals, the Boulder scientists rotated the magnetic field so that the few cold atoms that were leaking through a weak point in the bottle couldn't find this one escape route...
...side and divided by 16 massive columns. In Ramesses' day the room would have seemed positively cavernous; now it's filled nearly to the top with rubble washed in over the centuries by infrequent flash floods. Anyone who wants to traverse the chamber has to crawl through a tight passage, lighted by a string of dim electric light bulbs, where the dirt has been painstakingly cleared away. "It's like crawling under a bed," says Time's Marlowe, "except that it goes on and on, and the ceiling above your head is studded with jagged outcroppings of rock that...
...Kennedyapparently made the decision that would characterizeher public personafor the rest of her life. "I'm not going to be the Widow Kennedy," she told journalist Theodore H. White, in previously unpublished comments released by theJohn F. KennedyLibrary today. "When this is over," she added, "I'm going to crawl into the deepest retirement there is." Excerpts of White's Nov. 29, 1963 interview have been published in Life magazine and his own memoir; the papers are known collectively as the "Camelot Documents" because the Life article marked the first time "Camelot" was linked to the Kennedy Administration in print...
...first five women to graduate from radio-relay school, and I found there was a lot of confusion. I had to ask for a toolbox that was issued automatically to everyone else. When the men in my shop realized I was fully prepared to get dirty and I could crawl under a truck, climb an antenna and wade in the mud without melting, I was no longer a liability but an asset. My assignments from 1974 to 1980 were a learning experience for the men and for me. We were professionals, and we learned to respect each other. We also...
Finally, the team decided to cut the rebar to reach Bradley. But the space was still tiny for the three doctors. "You had to crawl in on your hands and knees in about a foot of water," says Massad. The doctors told her the only chance to save her would be to cut off the leg crushed beneath the girders. She begged them to try another way. "She was in shock, but very alert. We said, regardless, we are going to do it." The risk, the team agreed, was that without immediate surgery, Bradley would quickly lapse into a coma...