Word: detectives
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...over when Schatz graduates." "The cynicism was understandable Benjamin Schatz '81, last year's GSA president, was the single figure generally credited most with bringing Harvard's gay rights movement to prominence. But what has happened since Schatz left is not so extreme as that prediction. Rather, observers can detect a subtle shift in the GSA's tactics, away from its political stance as a minority group like any other, fighting for representation and legal protection...
...seem to be coming back into vogue. Their goals vary. Police in Montgomery County, Md., have been running daily blocks to snare drunken drivers. Last month a federal task force set up a continuing checkpoint on U.S. 1, the only road leading out of the Florida Keys, primarily to detect illegal aliens. Says Lawrence Sherman, director of research for the Police Foundation: "It's a technique with a great deal of potential...
...General Belgrano attest, not easy. Modern torpedoes like the Tigerfish can be avoided only by throwing out decoys like big air bubbles, using acoustic countermeasures like sonar jamming or, better yet, sinking the attacking submarine. But deep-diving nuclear attack submarines and the noiseless Tigerfish are hard to detect until it is too late. Similarly, the Sea Skua and Exocet antiship missiles are almost impossible to evade. A would-be victim can use electronic countermeasures like radar jamming to confuse the attacking missile's guidance system. A ship can also launch clouds of metallic strips from a special mortar...
...business activity is the level of company inventories. As sales slump during a recession and stockpiles of unsold goods swell, businessmen begin dumping their inventories and cutting back on orders from suppliers. In the process, layoffs surge throughout industry, and inventories grow skimpy. Then, when sales-hungry businessmen detect the first signs of an improving economy, they begin to rehire workers and restock warehouses. The level of inventories, thus, is usually a telltale signal of a recession or recovery...
...detect a fugitive monopole, Cabrera used a kind of magnetic mousetrap, which was connected to a SQUID (superconducting quantum interference device). He turned a coil of niobium, a platinum-gray metallic element, into a superconductor of electricity by cooling it to within nine degrees of absolute zero (minus 460° F). Current thus moved through it without resistance, allowing the slightest twitch in the current's flow to be recorded. At 1:53 p.m. on Feb. 14, the magnetic flux in Cabrera's device jumped eight steps, exactly what was expected if a Dirac monopole passed through. Cabrera...