From the Editor's Desk - 27 Nov 2009
It is the norm for underground excavations to be realigned to seek out the best possible geology. When that is not possible, ways and means of building facilities in less than ideal conditions must be found. The vast caverns of the new LHC machine at CERN called for every trick in the civil engineering book to satisfy the scientists who this week restarted the huge underground accelerator in their quest to find the tiniest particles of matter.
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