Monday, April 7, 2008

Radiation Training

Over the weekend I completed a long Army course on line about testing and maintaining equipment that uses radiation in its illumimation or operation. In the Army way, each instrument was covered in detail, but the bottom line on every one was: if anything is wrong, double bag the entire instrument, put it in a new box and ship it back to the people who are actually authorized to work on it. The introductory material on sources of radiation was very clear and easy to follow.

Chieu V. Le: Flight, Exile, and a Long Life of Service

Chieu V. Le was born in southern Vietnam in the early 1950s, into a country already fractured by war and ideology. His childhood was marked...