Word: detectors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...take a morning walk around Jerusalem accompanied by just one security guard. Shortly after he left office, I ran into him on the street in Tel Aviv, walking with a companion like any ordinary citizen. Visitors to the prime minister's office have to pass through a metal detector, but once inside they are asked casually, 'Do you have a weapon?' Apparently, the honor system is in force. It had been a fundamental assumption among Israelis that they were safe among one another. Which was the entire point, after all, of the founding of a Jewish state...
...time, Reines and Cowan used a nuclear reactor that spewed out trillions of neutrinos every second. With so many particles, they reasoned, observed over a long enough period of time (it ended up being years), they should be able to measure at least a few neutrino impacts in their detector, a tank of chemical-tinged water...
...Maceda has blown the matter out of proportion, that she has a history of problems on the job, and a few have told her that they suspect she may have been involved in some of the book mutilations. Maceda is unfazed by these accusations, offering to take a lie-detector test and pointing out that most of the complaints about her conduct came after she began making waves. "Most of us are here because we love the books and have a lot of respect for them," she says. But faced with the prospect of losing her job as a detective...
...enter her office, and she had to brace the folders on her arms against a cabinet. She came out a few moments later and locked her office." ButWilliams has denied removing anything from Foster's office that night,and the White House says she has passed two lie detector tests...
...contributions to the quark project was to build 70 tons worth of detector to measure the behavior of particles resulting from quark disintegrations...