Word: tunnelling
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...enforcement officers often speak of a narcotics pipeline across the American border, but little did they know how much truth there was in the metaphor. Last week astonished U.S. Customs agents unearthed an elaborate tunnel that began in the Mexican town of Agua Prieta and emerged 200 ft. away in Douglas, Ariz. Five ft. high and 4 ft. wide, the subterranean pathway had electric lighting, water pumps and storage compartments for drug caches. "It was just an exceptionally professionally engineered tunnel," said a Customs official. Agents first began to suspect the tunnel's existence last February, when a drug shipment...
...Chris said it was the worst game we played all season," Kitayama said. "We had tunnel vision on defense and didn't help each other out. On offense we were making bad passes to the hole and we were throwing it away up top, too. We decided to just look forward to our hard games and correct all the mistakes that we made...
...earliest fractions of a second after the Big Bang, where answers to the most intriguing mysteries are thought to lie. So U.S. physicists have embarked on a bold quest: the building of a colossal collider that will dwarf today's accelerators. Called the superconducting supercollider, it will have a tunnel that will circle for 87 km (54 miles) * under the cotton and cattle country surrounding Waxahachie, Texas. Expected to be completed around the year 2000, the SSC will cost $7 billion to $8 billion...
Fermilab. The machine most likely to find the top quark first is Fermilab's mighty Tevatron, which has been operating for 6 1/2 years beneath the waving grasses of the Illinois prairie. In the Tevatron, strong magnets guide subatomic particles through a circular tunnel that is 6.4 km (4 miles) in circumference. The accelerator is built as a ring so that particles can go around the track again and again, picking up speed with each lap. The ring was built large so that the particles would not have to make sharp turns...
...keep finding new answers, Rubbia is determined to improve CERN's technology. He plans to boost LEP's power 50% in the next year or two. CERN is also trying to persuade its member nations to put up the money to build a proton-proton collider in the same tunnel with LEP. Called the large had ron collider, it would be four times as powerful as the Tevatron and almost half as forceful as the proposed superconducting supercollider in Texas. Rubbia thinks he can finish the LHC several years ahead of the SSC and thus beat the Americans to many...