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...pass through the transparent walls of the ruby rod and are lost. But many hit the mirrors at either end of the rod and are reflected back to the opposite mirror. As they bounce back and forth along the rod, they stimulate other chromium atoms into emitting photons (see diagram, p. 49). When the chromium atoms that are in an excited state become more plentiful than those that are not, a torrent of photons bursts through the partially transparent mirror at one end of the rod in a brief but intense pulse of red light, vastly more powerful than...
...main door. Bill Barry, his bodyguard, wanted to go that way despite the crowd; he did not like the idea of using a back passageway. Said R.F.K.: "It's all right." So they went directly behind the speaker's platform through a gold curtain toward a serving kitchen (see diagram) that led to the press room. The Senator walked amid a clutch of aides, hotel employees and newsmen, with Ethel a few yards behind. This route took him through a swinging door and into the hot, malodorous, corridorlike chamber that was to be his place of execution...
...diagram), said Fournier, entered the top of Williams' skull, bounced off a bone near the pituitary gland and stopped in the temporal lobe of the brain. Another (No. 2) entered below the left eye and came to rest between the carotid artery and the jugular vein. One centimeter's deviation in almost any direction and this bullet could have caused fatal hemorrhaging. A third slug burrowed from the corner of the right eye into the jawbone. The fourth traveled from a point under the right nostril into the hard palate. The fifth bullet went through the roof...
Supermale? Nature intended every man and woman to have 46 chromo somes per cell: 22 pairs of autosomes, which determine countless characteristics other than sex, and two gonosomes or sex chromosomes. In the female, these are a pair of Xs; in the male, an X and a Y (see diagram). When a sperm fertilizes an ovum, each supplies half the 46 chromosomes for the combination of cells that will grow into a baby. If the sperm contains an X chromosome, the baby gets that X plus one from the mother, and will be an XX girl. If the sperm contains...
...hotel on the beach. And he uses the camera to stop simple, clearly defined portraits so we can study them--a tree in a field, a man reading the paper on his bed. Some of his work is so abstract, however, that he has to draw a diagram to explain the lines of direction. But the purpose of a photograph ought to be clear. To be ambiguous, to suggest several ideas is fine; but a photo shouldn't be intentionally difficult...