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Still, the Soviets announced that they have shut down and are modifying about half of the country's 14 RBMK-1000 Chernobyl-type reactors. Legasov said the overhaul will include the addition of more control rods to slow down nuclear fission in the water-cooled reactor core. Operators will have only limited ability to withdraw the rods, and a safer blend of uranium fuel is being developed...
Gone are the days when the Guard operated with cast-off equipment from the regular military. Guardsmen now drive the latest M1 Abrams tanks and Bradley fighting vehicles, while Guard pilots fly every type of Air Force plane save the top-secret F-19 Stealth fighter. The Texas Air Guard, for example, recently acquired $723.9 million worth of new equipment, including 21 F-16 fighters costing $22 million each...
Gould pointed to the dinosaurs, saying that there was no biological reason for the dinosaur mass extinction, which he said was probably caused by some type of extraterrestrial impact...
...Columbia University mathematician, Edward Kasner, announced the discovery of a new type of geometry, in which, The Times said, "the sum of the measure of the parts is greater than the measure of the whole...
...paper of record, and editors in its West43rd Street offices consider goings-on at theCollege on the Charles among the news that's fitto print. A rhapsodic cover piece on Harvard at350, for instance, graced the The Times's SundayMagazine earlier this summer. However, The Timesdoes not plan the type of comprehensive coverageof the 350th which garnered it a Pulitzer 50 yearsago...