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...community six years ago by showing that a compound containing the exotic element yttrium could become a superconductor at 98 degrees on the Kelvin scale favored by physicists (that's a not-so-balmy -283 degreesF). That record, broken repeatedly, is now as outdated as the 19-foot pole vault, and last month the contest heated up again. First Chu announced in the journal Nature that a mercury-based compound could superconduct at 153 degreesK (-184 degreesF), a startling 20 degrees higher than the old standard. He got that result by subjecting the material to enormous pressure -- the sort that...
...someone says, as giant columns begin to crumble around her. "The whole place is a gigantic vault...
Each day, according to prosecutors, cash was emptied from the registers into a "money room," where it was counted, placed in bags and dropped down a chute into the "vault room." Most of the unreported loot was lugged to the Caribbean, where Leonard owns a second home. Another executive, Leonard's brother-in-law, kept $484,000 stashed behind a false panel in his basement. Meanwhile, the computer program itself was hidden in a hollowed-out copy of the 1982 Business Directory of New England...
This refurbished bank comes complete with tables in the vault and makes a strong showing in all important categories--location, quality, price, variety, atmosphere and hours...
...question, right up there with who shot J.R., what's in Al Capone's vault, and where's Jimmy Hoffa...