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DALLAS (AP) —Juries that send
convicts to prison don’t have any
idea that a new state f urlough law al
lows the inmates to come back to
their communities “on vacations,”
police say.
Passecl by the T exas Legislature
last vear, the law gives prison offi
cials sole authority over which in
mates are furloughed and where
they’re allowed to go. Police, how
ever, say the practice threatens pub
lic safety.
Texas Department of Corrections
officials value furloughs for inmate
rehabilitation and claim they benefit
only qualified prisoners.
“I think they are opportunities for
inmates to secure family ties and em
ployment, which are the two most
important things to have to stay out
of prison,” TDC spokesman David
Nunnelee said. “You can’t put these
people in prison and just forget
about them because they’re going to
return to their communities sooner
or later.”
T DC officials used to honor re
quests from police in seven counties
— Dallas, Tarrant, Harris, Bexar,
Ellis, Anderson and Lee — to limit
inmate furloughs to funerals of im
mediate family members. But in No
vember, the TDC decided against al
lowing such “blanket” requests,
officials said.
Dallas Police Chief Billy Prince
wrote a letter of protest to a prison
board member after an inmate on
furlough was arrested in connection
with a burglary last month.
The prisoner had been granted a
seven-day furlough to visit his sister
in Dallas and earn money to put in
his prison account, Nunnelee said.
Police Lt. Larry Sellers said, “Typ
ically they go back to the same set
ting that sent them to prison in the
first place.”
esearchers prepare to delve
Into ‘unknown’ with cyclotron
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By Jamie Russell
Stall Writer
[The world’s fastest plane travels at
bund 2,200 mph, the fastest train
[at more than 200 mph. But imagine
uncing. atoms off each other at
eds reaching 62,000 miles per
ond.
On the evening of Jan. 21, scien-
tisis watched their new “state-of-the-
an” K500 cyclotron at the Cyclotron
Institute at Texas A&M accelerate its
* Fust beam of particles.
iHOn Thursday, government offi-
fels and scientists toured the cyclo
tron as part of a two-day Texas Re-
J|.irch Seminar sponsored by A&M
and the University ol Texas.
■A&M’s cyclotron institute and vis-
Scientists will use the new cyclo
tron to explore new frontiers in par-
ftii ie acceleration, said Dr. Jeff
lionson, a senior scientist at the Cy
clotron Institute.
■ “We don’t know what practical ap
plications will come out of it,” Bron
son said. “If we already knew, there
fouldn’t be a point in doing all this.”
■ The future of the cyclotron is in-
(Jnerminate, he said; (here may be a
|orld beyond what is known, but sci-
fnisls must take its exploration one
Jppal a time.
The Jan. 21 test) is the first sig-
“We don’t know what practical applications will come
out of it. If we already knew, there wouldn't he a point
in doing all this. ”
— Dr. Jeff Bronson, Cyclotron Institute senior scien
tist
nificant step — for all internal parts
of the cyclotron to work where a
beam (of particles) is actually pro
duced and accelerated inside the cy
clotron,” Bronson said.
What this means in basic terms is
that the cyclotron is injected with
particles called ions. The ions (nitro
gen ions for this experiment) are at
oms without all their electrons. The
loss of some or all of the electrons
from the atom leaves a magnetically
charged core.
As the ions spiral outward in a
26.5-inch circular vacuum, they are
confined inside the chamber by a
magnetic field. Energy is pumped
in, causing the ions to spiral faster,
reaching about 1/10th the speed of
light. As the spiral gets larger, it
eventually reaches and hits an insu
lated metal probe placed about 15
inches from its center.
During the test, the cyclotron only-
produced a fraction of the energy it
will produce at full power, Bronson
said. Scientists have to test the ma
chine little by little.
“The further out you go with the
beam, the more the parameters af
fect the magnetic field,” Bronson
said. “We have to tune the beam as
we work it out.
“Eventually, weTl pull the beam
out of the machine, pipe it off some
where and actually do an experi
ment.”
A cyclotron is made up of three
main components: a magnet, which
causes the circular path of particles;
an oscillating radio frequency (rf)
electrical field, which accelerates the
particles, and an ion source, which
provides the particles.
Equipped with liquid-helium
cooled superconducting coils rather
than standard water-cooled copper
coils, the K.500 achieves super-cold
temperatures, reducing electrical re
sistance and creating a stronger
magnetic field. This enables re
searchers to give the particles more
energy while confining them with
the stronger magnetic field.
The K.500 and the building ex
pansion was f unded in part by $6.25
million obtained through the Uni
versity by a specific line item the
Texas Legislature put into the state
budget, Bronson said.
An additional $1 million in sup
port of chemistry research in T exas
was donated by the Robert A. Welch
Foundation.
The complete cyclotron facility is
worth about $35 million.
“So building the new machine
here where we can use a lot of the
old facilities has ended up saving us
a lot of money and given us an equiv
alent of a very expensive facility he
re,” Bronson said.
Not only is the outcome — the
K500 — notable, but the minds and
physical labor behind the machine
are remarkable, he said.
“One of the byproducts of this is
we now have the technical accelera
tor group here at A&M that is one of
about three in the world capable of
building an accelerator like this,” he
said.
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fficials capture escaped bear from wild animal orphanage
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SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A 100-pound Hima
layan bear named Cheech only had a partial day
of freedom before he was captured and returned
which he lives with his sister,
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exart
1 to his cage, in
^™hong, officials said.
Die 3-foot tall beat was recaptured Wednes-
ay when dogs found him about a quarter-mile
rom his cage at the Wild Animal Orphanage for
bused and unwanted exotic animals.
The bear was tranquilized and then moved
back to his cage with Chong, who had remained
behind.
Carol Asvestas, the director of the refuge, was
detained in the hospital because she was having a
baby Tuesday when Cheech escaped through an
opening in the cage.
Several hours after giving birth, Asvestas left
her hospital bed to help search for the 1‘/a-year-
old animal.
“He’s not an attack bear,” she said. “But he
could hurt you. He’s not the one you could run
up to and cuddle.”
The bear and other animals were being moved
to a new facility Monday night and refuge volun
teers did not see that the bears’ cage was not se
cure enough, Asvestas said.
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