News Flash

Linearity in Calibration Act III Scene VI - Quantifying Nonlinearity, Part II, and a News Flash... 

This hair-raising news flash was squeezed in among rather trivial reports. And this despite the fact that it could have prompted an international outcry ... 

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You just got a promotion. You call your best friend to share the news flash on your upwardly mobile ecstasy—but before you can even squeak out one gleeful, artificially modest yet subtly self-congratulatory news flash, he hits you with a bombshell His wife is leaving him. 

A typical aerial shell used in fireworks displays. Time-delayed fuses cause a shell to explode in stages. In this case a red star-burst occurs first followed by a blue starbursb and finally a flash and loud report. Reprinted with permission from Chemical Engineering News, Vol. 59, Issue 26, June 29,1981, p. 25. Copyright 1981 American Chemical Society. 

Caverns when news of the attack came over his car radio. The thought flashed through his mind that the millions of bats in American caves might be fitted with incendiary bombs and dropped on Japan. He drove back to Carlsbad, captured some bats for tests, ransacked libraries for data on the subject, and in January sent his proposal to the White House. President Roosevelt OK d it, and the project was on. 

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