Word: detectors
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Since 1968 scientists have been monitoring huge detectors for signs of these fleeting visitors from the sun. But so far, the results have been both disappointing and intriguing: the experiments have detected far fewer neutrinos than solar models predicted. Scientists were especially baffled by a recent report from a Soviet-American research team that set up a detector to monitor neutrinos emitted by the fusion of hydrogen atoms, the sun's main reaction. After four months of operation near the Soviet town of Baksan, the experiment has yet to turn up a single solar neutrino...
Cronyism in office. Leaks and lie-detector tests. Softness on white collar crime. The Justice Department during Watergate? Edwin Meese at his worst? No, it's the list of charges against Attorney General Dick Thornburgh, and the reason he has become the Bush Administration's first high-level personnel problem...
...William Gray III, which proved to be ham-handed. Deputy Attorney General Ayer resigned when Thornburgh refused to turn the investigation over to the office charged with examining internal wrongdoing. Press secretary David Runkel and Robert Ross Jr., Thornburgh's right-hand man for internal affairs, fumbled on lie-detector tests and were reassigned. Even leak-buster Thornburgh strapped himself to a polygraph to prove he was cleaner than Caesar's wife...
Sure, the special effects are great, up until the ending. The mutants are really gross, but in good way. The automated taxicabs are terrific, as are a few other gadgets thrown in here and there. The gunfight inside the subway metal detector shows how computer-assisted animation has revolutionized the movie-making art. And the gunfight on the escalator (really part of the same sequence) proves that a director can be creative within the standard cinema forms...
...Attorney General felt compelled to take a lie-detector test in connection with an internal-leak investigation that implicated top aides. The probe left ! many loyalists questioning his leadership...