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Born in Baltimore, Zappa was the son of a Sicilian-born meteorologist and metallurgist who worked for a poison-gas manufacturer -- the inspiration, perhaps, for his later Prelude to the Afternoon of a Sexually Aroused Gas Mask. The family moved to California when he was 10, and young Frank grew up in Lancaster, north of Los Angeles. "I developed an affinity to creeps," he recalled, "and I've surrounded myself with them ever since." At 15 he read a magazine article that referred to Varese's audacious compositions as "the ugliest music in the world," and he knew...
...Metallurgist Ann Van Orden, for her part, is fascinated by the fibrous structure of rhinoceros horn. "What strikes me about rhino horn," says Van Orden, "is that it is a natural composite. Really, it looks just like the material used to make the wings of a Stealth aircraft!" The benefits that might flow from such an insight can only be guessed at. Perhaps most intriguing is the fact that rhino horn is self-healing: capable of repairing the tiny cracks that come from jousting matches with other rhinos. "Now imagine a car that could self-heal after a fender bender...
...field this summer we will have a geologist, a metallurgist, a conservationist, [a] physical anthropologist [and a] botanist. There's a continual interaction during the time we are actually digging," says Stager. More intensive artifact and lab analysis are deferred to a laboratory in Jerusalem or the Semitic Museum at Harvard. which Stager directs, he says...
...scientific papers. Says Metallurgist Frank Fradin, director of Argonne's materials science division, who is also an associate editor of Physical Review Letters: "As of three weeks ago, we had 98 papers submitted on the subject, and only a small fraction of them will ever get published. Progress is so rapid that a result of two to three weeks ago is already out of date. We've had to institute a whole new system to speed up the publication process." One important discovery: at least a dozen different compounds, all subtly different from the one Chu found, appear...
During the reprocessing tussle, Pakistan pulled off its most audacious espionage coup. It came to light after a quiet scientist, Abdul Qadeer Khan, resigned in March 1976 from his post as a metallurgist at the Physical Dynamics Research Laboratory, known as F.D.O., in Amsterdam. The firm was involved in research and development at one of Western Europe's most advanced atomic installations, the URENCO uranium-enrichment facility at Almelo, also in the Netherlands. The plant is today one of Western Europe's major sources of low-enriched uranium for nuclear reactors. High-speed gas centrifuges like those at URENCO -- thousands...