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Black holes occur when a neutron or another dense star collapses, and causes an area of violent activity in space exerting such strong gravitational forces that no light rays can emerge. This area then "vanishes out of sight, so to speak," Alastair G.W. Cameron, chairman of the Astronomy Department, said yesterday...
Although U.S. officials deny any violation of that agreement, the Defense Nuclear Agency reports that in five years ending last June, AFRRI used 1,379 primates-undoubtedly nearly all of them rhesus monkeys-in its tests. One typical set of tests was designed to simulate the effects of the neutron bomb, which kills not by blast or burning but by radiation. In order to determine monkeys' work capacity when healthy, they were conditioned by means of electric shocks to run on a treadmill for six hours. Then they were subjected to huge doses of radiation -from...
Yadava said, "Weapons like neutron bombs that we have now will not destroy school buildings, only the beautiful children living in it--this is insanity, it is the challenge of humanity...
...normally don't pilfer fragments of neutron-bomb jokes from my good friend Shecky Green, but this week, it's for a good reason. Shecky and I were vacationing together last week (the Concord was never so supersonic...), and one night in the dining hall, as the waiter was bringing around those gorgeous little kreplachs, Shecky mounted the table and spontaneously burst into a series of his best jokes ever. Then, faster than you could say, "My mother-in-law is so annoying that..," he'd launched into an evocative Totie Fields imitation, and the dining room crowd...
...good friends Steve Lawrence, Eydie Gorme, Don Rickles--ya big dummy, ha, ha--and Rose Marie, and I just thought I'd show you some of my best stuff, in a milieu which hardly lent itself to spontaneous creative expression. Surely, if I throw in the rights to that neutron-bomb joke, we can arrange a little something for the column next week? Besides, it's reading period and all, and the kids need something to lift them out of their doldrums...