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Brandenburg says the muon detector was but onecomponent of an all-purpose detector which about100 institutions were helping to construct...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Hsu, | Title: Supercollider's Cancellation Changes Physicists' Lives | 2/2/1994 | See Source »

Mann says a single university group wasill-equipped to design a detector alone. HarvardTufts and Brandeis Universities therefore sharedresources and formed the Boston Muon Consortium.Collaborators from the three universities had beenmeeting weekly at Harvard for the past three tofour years...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Hsu, | Title: Supercollider's Cancellation Changes Physicists' Lives | 2/2/1994 | See Source »

Hawkes acknowledged, however, that a faulty smoke detector in L-entry was left deactivated until about 3:30 p.m. The detector was faulty and was not reactivated in order to avoid another false alarm, he said...

Author: By Ira E. Stoll, | Title: Dormitory Fire Alarm Deactivated | 8/17/1993 | See Source »

Fixing the faulty smoke detector took some time because of activity in other areas of campus, including a small fire at Harvard Medical School's Vanderbilt Hall, Hawkes said...

Author: By Ira E. Stoll, | Title: Dormitory Fire Alarm Deactivated | 8/17/1993 | See Source »

...savings and loan crisis. The B.C.C.I. caper. Insider trading. Think of all the notorious business scandals that briefly enriched white-collar crooks during the greedy '80s. All those financial fiascoes might have been prevented with a simple lie-detector test: golf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's All In the Lie | 7/26/1993 | See Source »

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