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"We need your expertise in electroreat help if you could see from a technical point of view if these pipe dreams have any basis in reality Where can we learn more about the Kovacs Theorems?"
"My best advice is to go right to the source The research in this country was done in Los Alamos There's even a Kovacs Society out there that's a repository for his work and documents I've contacted them from time to time with questions"
Austin turned to Adler "Could you ith Al and co power plants is a pretty big deal Those dynamos were probably commercially built"
"I'll see if I can coin," Zavala said
"We could be in New Mexico this afternoon and back here tomorrow," Gamay said
Austin nodded "Find out how far those experi on We'll work up everything ever written about Kovacs Maybe we'll find a nugget that will make it worth our while"
He thanked everyone for coested they ether in a few hours at NUMA headquarters On his way back into the house, Austin passed his bookcase and noticed the volume on Plato
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He wondered what Plato would have ma
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Karla lay in her sleeping bag and listened to the wail of the wind around the old fur trappers' shed She was thinking about her reaction at seeing the baby mammoth To say she was astonished would have been an understate She had forced herself to take long, even breaths Her training had eventually kicked in, and she began to subject the specimen on the table to scientific analysis
Measuring the creature with her eye, she guessed that it was about forty-five inches long and forty inches high Weight was probably around two hundred pounds The e artists had captured in their cave drawings, including the high-peaked head croith its hair-covered knob and the high shoulder hump
The tusks were starting to curve,it likely that the ani The ears were small and the trunk was stubby compared to the body Even at full maturity, the trunk would be shorter than that of a modern-day elephant The body was covered with chestnut-colored hair Froht e
Karla thought this could be the enius that had ever been discovered Most mammoth remains consisted of chunks of meat and bone This was a whole animal, and in far better condition than Effie, the partial carcass discovered at Fairbanks Creek, and the Russian specimens, Dima and Zharkov, or, the most famous one of all, the quick-frozen Beresovka carcass, whose flesh was still edible The animal's stomach contained the buttercups it had eaten a short time before its death Karla turned to the other scientists
"It's marvelous," she said "Where did you find it?"