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...Welch earned the nickname "Neutron Jack" in the early 1980s for the massive layoffs he initiated at GE--he eliminated nearly two-fifths of the company's total workforce in his drive to get the conglomerate out of businesses it could not dominate...
Still, the district thought Fox Tech could do better, and unleashed what educators call the "neutron bomb" of school reform: it "disestablished" the school and forced all employees to reapply for their jobs. New principal Joanne Cockrell, an intense former math teacher and basketball coach, rehired a third of the faculty and brought in 70 new teachers. All had to be willing, she says, "to give up their private time." Cockrell instituted a strict dress code and in her first year dragged 250 kids and their parents into truancy court. She also split the school into four specialized programs, each...
...using a telescope with finer resolution, Garcia and his colleagues have found that black holes are 100 times darker than neutron stars...
Narayan called the evidence that he and his colleagues had for event horizons "fairly compelling" but "not conclusive." For instance, other scientists say the difference in brightness could be caused by less matter flowing toward dense neutron stars, not by black holes devouring the matter...
Chandra has cleaner and more precisely aligned mirrors than any other telescope. According to Garcia, the improvement means Chandra can see objects that are 100 times dimmer than what previous telescopes could see--and that difference is enough to detect the factor of 100 in brightness between neutron stars and black holes...