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...Mount Sinai was all in smoke, for the Lord had come down upon it in fire; the smoke rose like the smoke of a kiln, and the whole mountain trembled violently... As Moses spoke, God answered him in thunder...
...aides, whose need to believe him borders on the spiritual. There is the middle group of longer-standing advisers who fear it is all true but push on, hoping otherwise, praying that this scandal will, like so many others before, prove to be nonfatal. And then there are the kiln-fired realists, who are, by habit if not by faith, the most optimistic. As one of them put it, "He deserves everything he is getting right now. But that doesn't mean we aren't trying to help...
...center also has a drop-in lounge that is open 365 days a year, a kitchen, an arts and crafts classroom, and a kiln complete with a potter's wheel...
...Located in Tooele, Utah, home of the nation's largest chemical stockpile, the facility was built by EG&G Defense Materials Inc., under contract to the Army. But Utah residents are wary of the military after the atomic-testing scandal of the 1950s. "The firebricks blew up in the kiln at Johnston," says Steve Jones, a safety inspector who was fired by EG&G in 1994, after just three months on the job. "Then they built the kiln in Tooele using the same bricks." The Army contends that Jones was fired for mismanagement; Jones says he was sacked after refusing...
TWELVE SUMMERS AGO, UNIVERSITY of Arizona astronomer Roger Angel swung by a Tucson pottery shop to pick up some firebricks for a backyard kiln. Then he purchased some glass ovenware at a nearby hardware store. A few days later, he materialized in a graduate student's doorway, brandishing a couple of Pyrex custard dishes melted to a misshapen blob. "We can make telescope mirrors out of this!" Angel exclaimed. Thus began a monumental and quixotic effort to reinvent the central light-gathering surface of the telescope, from its initial design to its final polishing...