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...tubes were designed for rockets, not for use in nuclear-processing plants. Powell personally grilled CIA experts on the tubes and was told that U.S. intelligence had spun some of the intercepted tubes at the extreme speeds required to enrich uranium. Rocket tubes would have shattered--these withstood the strain. The discussion of the tubes was a high point in a performance that took almost 1 1/2 hours. When it was over, Powell had done about as much as any member of the Administration could to convince the world that Saddam was cheating the inspectors, hiding weapons of mass destruction...
Ingo Potrykus and Peter Beyer create golden rice, a bioengineered strain enriched with beta-carotene...
...injury that kept me out was a strain in my right tibialis muscle, lingering from the injury sustained in the weight room back in December,” Chu said. “Coaches and trainers want me to be healthy and ready for the national team indoors...
...There’s a sort of tech shortage, so it’s always a strain to get shows to be fully realized,” said Publicity Coordinator Michael M. Donahue...
Nevertheless, having more professors go away will put extra strain on those who stay. Department chairs will have to juggle schedules to ensure that popular courses are offered consistently. Hiring more faculty is one way to help departments compensate for the loss of more professors for longer periods of time, and so this change should add impetus to Kirby’s plan to expand significantly the size of the faculty. For now, departments have been instructed to submit three-year plans that will take into account the temporary loss of faculty members who take advantage of the new leave...