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Wednesday, October 22 3:30 p.m. Director's Coffee Break - 2nd Flr X-Over 4:00 p.m. Fermilab Colloquium - 1 West Speaker: M. Adams, Case Western Reserve University Title: Genomics: Looking at Life in New Ways
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Wednesday, October 22 Beef barley soup Seasoned and slow roasted beef w/pan dipped au jus $4.75 Roasted chicken tossed w/a vegetable cream sauce and rice baked en casserole $3.50 Tuna Catalina stacker w/smoked applewood bacon $4.75 Half pound burger topped w/Wisconsin Swiss and smoked ham on a toasted onion roll $4.75 Wild greens w/roasted vegetables, wild cherries and almonds $3.75 Eurest Dining Center Weekly Menu Chez Leon |
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28 Fermilab Employees Receive 10-Year Service Awards Yesterday, Employee Relations honored 28 members of the Fermilab community with 10-year service awards. 25 of the honorees attended the luncheon at Chez Leon. They received buttons and thanks from their host, Fermilab's Associate Director Bruce Chrisman. Before the ceremony, Chrisman commented on the occasion. "It's a nice opportunity to recognize the employees who form the backbone of Fermilab. We're fortunate to have people who enjoy the work environment and stay a long time."
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From The New York Times, October 21, 2003 New Chief at Physics Lab Tries to Polish Faded Star By Claudia Dreifus
For much of the 1950's and 1960's, the 5,300-acre center operated for the Atomic Energy Commission (since absorbed by the Department of Energy) was a star in the federal research laboratory system and an international leader in particle and atomic physics.
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Fermilab press release, October 21, 2003 Pierre Auger Observatory is Now the World's Largest Air Shower Array 
With the completion of its hundredth surface detector, the Pierre Auger Observatory, under construction in Argentina, this week became the largest cosmic-ray air shower array in the world. Managed by scientists at Fermilab, the Pierre Auger project so far encompasses a 70-square-mile array of detectors that are tracking the most violent-and perhaps most puzzling- processes in the entire universe.
Cosmic rays are extraterrestrial particles - usually protons or heavier ions -- that hit the Earth's atmosphere and create cascades of secondary particles. While cosmic rays approach the earth at a range of energies, scientists long believed that their energy could not exceed 1020 electron volts, some 100 million times the proton energy achievable in Fermilab's Tevatron, the most powerful particle accelerator in the world. But recent experiments in Japan and Utah have detected a few such ultrahigh energy cosmic rays, raising questions about what extraordinary events in the universe could have produced them.
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Atoms for Peace, October 22 In December 1953, President Dwight Eisenhower delivered his “Atoms for Peace” speech at the General Assembly of the United Nations. The speech will be commemorated by a day-long conference "Nuclear Energy and Science for the 21st Century: Atoms for Peace Plus Fifty" on October 22 from 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. in the Watergate Hotel in Washington, DC. more information
Bible Exploration for Lunch
International Folk Dancing
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