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To keep the rats within bounds, the Paris police set up traps. They checked on glue shops, where the thieves got materials with which to fish money from the church boxes. They watched bistros, where the thieves exchanged small coins for big bills.
The invention looks like a Rube Gold berg contraption, somewhat streamlined. But apparently it works, often catching as many as 24 rats a night. The manufacturer claims that he has paying customers for all the traps he can make.
Processes & Places. There were many possible ways of separating U-235 from natural uranium. Two processes at least were found to work well. In the first (mass spectrograph), uranium particles were electrically charged, fired through a huge electromagnet, sent into a curving course. The lighter U-235 swung more widely...
No Scandal Whatever. Editor Owens has kept the adventures of the fox as Caxton printed them. Again Reynard tempts pompous, grasping Brown the Bear to search for honey in a split log, knocks out the wedges and traps him fast. Again he steals the sausage from sniveling Poodle Wackerlos, shows...
Meanwhile in Russia the Wehrmacht fought almost, but no quite, to Moscow; lost some ground in a winter campaign but pushed on again to Stalingrad. In September 1942 the attack on Stalingrad began. The Russians had already lost over half their steel capacity, 40% of their machine-tool industry, the...