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...joke," one scientist commented. "Inside the ring, there is tremendous leakage of energy in the form of high-frequency radiation. A person caught in there when the machine is running would receive a fatal does in a small fraction of a second." Eight feet of concrete and lead are used to shield the experimental hall personnel from the ring's radiation...
...same time, it is necessary to remember that the more than a billion dollars spent by the federal government for research and development in colleges and universities--including the amounts spent in support of a number of very large off-campus laboratories under university management--is only a small fraction (less than 10 per cent) of the full amount allotted by the government for research and development. It is also important to remember that the large majority of colleges--and the fields of the social sciences and humanities in all institutions--have felt almost no impact from federal research programs...
...Excessive-and largely unnecessary-labor costs. On four big dailies alone-the Express, Mirror, Mail and Times-this amounted to $6,720,000 a year. Only a tiny fraction of this went to administrative and editorial staffers...
...spring of 1953 there were 19 requests to substitute papers or other alternatives for the standard final; last year this figure had risen to 51. Moreover, in 1953 only about a sixth of the exempted courses were not of the laboratory-language type; in 1961, the corresponding fraction was greater than a quarter...
...rigging had to be reset, her deck drilled and patched, her vast sails recut. When Gretel slipped off the ways, she still had to test her sheets, still had to learn if the new rigging would let her steer easier in fresh breezes and add a crucial fraction of a knot to her speed...