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...Little Boy" worked much like firing a gun. A small explosive propelled a uranium "bullet" down a 6-ft. (1.8-m) barrel into a uranium core, triggering nuclear fission. The bomb never hit the ground. To maximize the damage, a radar proximity fuse in the tail detonated the bomb 1,900 ft. (580 m) above Hiroshima...
...town house in New Delhi, crosses a courtyard where a woman is snoring on a rope bed, and arrives at a brick tomb that has survived for 450 years. Hidden away in this unlikely domestic setting, it's a splendid archeological curiosity?one of the first tombs to fuse Persian and Mughal styles in a way that prefigured the design of the Taj Mahal a century later. But as Thakur steps inside, she is assaulted by a stench that reveals the mausoleum's current function: it has become a toilet. "Heritage in India is endless," says Thakur, head...
...industry giant lionized for his steel will and feared for his short fuse, Greenberg landed at Omaha Beach on D-day and was awarded a Bronze Star in the Korean War. Many say he is an enigma, that nobody really knows him. But perhaps he is not all that complicated. Everything he's done at AIG--hobnobbing with the elite, constant globe trotting, charitable giving, his 24/7 schedule--was aimed at one thing: making the company a more formidable global competitor. This is a man who knew how to play hardball to get what he wanted. A lawyer before...
...What’s clear to me is what [Summers’ comments on women in science] did was only light the fuse to a situation that already had a lot of explosives in it,” says Harvard Business School Kirstein Professor of Human Relation Jay W. Lorsch, who is an expert in leadership and organizational behavior. “It was just waiting for something to make it erupt, and that happened...
...quickly became clear that the women in science comments were the fuse that ignited a powder keg of discontent Summers had been filling for the past four years...