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'"We can see there's a shelf, a beach, that is being exposed as the lake evaporates," Brown said.'
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"The properties of the ZZ diboson make its discovery an essential prelude to finding or excluding the Higgs boson at the Tevatron."
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"Electromagnetism is Snape.
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The calibration text for the microscope system.
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The ancient and honorable art continues to this day.
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Thanks for the link! Re "calibration text": is that known, or perhaps common practice on probes of this kind? It was a guess on my part, one I wasn't sure enough to stick with; I suppose the alternatives are a "golf ball to the moon" type prank or a clever hack of some kind.