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...printing compositor at the Rome daily // Messaggero, had just parked his car near his home when the two gunmen struck. They pumped six bullets into him and sped away on a motor scooter. Di Leo died instantly. Within an hour, the neo-Fascist Armed Revolutionary Nuclei (NAR) claimed responsibility for the killing -and even phoned // Messaggero to brag about it. "This evening our commando executed Concina..." the caller began. "No, you son of a bitch," shouted the switchboard operator in tears. "You didn't kill Concina. You murdered someone else." While Maurizio Di Leo lay dead in the street...
...morning, the first rush of the August vacation exodus, when the station was packed with an estimated 10,000 people scurrying for tickets and trains. Shortly after the blast, an anonymous telephone caller claimed that the bomb had been planted by a neo-Fascist group called the Armed Revolutionary Nuclei (N.A.R.). One possible motive for the outrage: it had been announced earlier in the day that four right-wing terrorists had been indicted for the 1974 bombing of a train outside Bologna that had claimed twelve lives...
...Fission splits atomic nuclei apart; fusion forces light atomic nuclei together to form heavy nuclei. Both reactions release large amounts of energy...
...finding of chromosome abnormalities in residents of the Love Canal area was hardly surprising. It has long been known that the 46 pairs of rodlike structures that carry the genetic message in the nuclei of human cells can be damaged by environmental factors, including certain chemicals. When that happens, the message may become jumbled, possibly increasing the risk of cancer. Some scientists say chromosome damage may also be linked with birth defects and spontaneous abortion. But were the tests conducted by Houston's Biogenics Corp. for the EPA a true index of genetic mayhem from Love Canal...
...liquid were ten helium-filled tubes wired to an external oscilloscope. The detection apparatus was shielded in lead and cadmium cylinders and a foot-thick "pot" to block everything but neutrinos. As the particles barreled through the heavy water, some scored bull's-eye hits on the nuclei of its hydrogen atoms, which contain an extra neutron. These collisions produced other particles, including more neutrons that struck the helium-filled tubes and registered on the oscilloscope...