Word: proof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Radiation-Proof Robots. The Hanford plutonium plant at Richland, Wash, is even lonelier. The great reactors themselves are virtually uninhabited. Nothing about them moves; nothing changes visibly. A good part of the Columbia River flows through the cooling ducts, but its passage makes almost no sound...
...where their Russian colleagues seem to have lost all freedom of thought. When the Soviet government began to tell its own scientists how they must think scientifically, it did wonders for the morale and recruitment of U.S. atomic-bomb laboratories. That the scientists had to wait so long for proof of the Soviet character indicates that many scientists are as ignorant in the field of politics as the average politician is ignorant of nuclear physics...
...Clues & Proof. Combing old battlefields from the Pusan beachhead to the present battlefront are hundreds of officers, soldiers and civilians with special skills-fingerprint experts from the FBI, men with detective experience, trained undertakers, X-ray technicians, doctors, dentists, chemists, anthropologists, clerks. At Kure, the lab staff looks for clues in laundry and dry-cleaning marks, scars, teeth, old bone fractures, even tattoos...
Ceram. The big men and big moments of modern archeology; proof that digging can be dramatic (TIME...
...tutor the circle's mischievous parcel of small fry in an impromptu summer school; his joy is to roam off into the woods alone munching an apple and chewing on the word of God. On one such solitary jaunt, he sees a vision, not God but a proof "that there is God, and that we matter...