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SLAC Unveils New Public
Website
By Katherine Bellevin
The Laboratory has launched a new Web site that
highlights our varied scientific initiatives as well as important
information for staff, users and the public. A key goal of the new Web site is to communicate
the excitement and energy surrounding the science we do at the Lab. This
has meant creating new content and imagery, as well as organizing
existing pages around the various audiences that use the Web site.
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Archimedes Manuscript Yields Secrets
Under X-Ray Gaze
 By
Heather Rock Woods
For five days in early May, the ancient collided with the
ultra-modern at SSRL, bringing brilliant, long-hidden ideas to light
with brilliant x-ray light. A synchrotron x-ray beam illuminated the
obscured work—erased, written over and even painted over—of ancient
mathematical genius Archimedes, born 287 B.C. in Sicily.
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LCLS Construction Gathering Steam
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Matthew Early Wright
The LCLS project is off and running. This summer, crews
will begin several major construction projects, planners will sign
contracts for hardware, and R&D experimentation and testing of materials
will begin.
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40 Years of SLAC
Power
By
Gregory A. Loew
For more than 40 years up until January 1, 2005, SLAC enjoyed
exceptionally low electric power rates for two reasons. The first was
because of Director Emeritus W.K.H. (Pief) Panofsky’s wise planning from
the inception of the Lab to secure a long-term contract with the Western
Area Power Administration (WAPA) in Sacramento, now in Folsom. Most of
WAPA’s power came from dams around the Central Valley. Panofsky used to
call it ‘socialist power’ because it was essentially government power
stemming from the Bureau of Reclamation created under FDR.
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