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Exploring the northern hemisphere's deepest and largest goldmine entailed hard-toed rubber boots, coveralls with reflectors, hardhat, miner's light and a tiny can with the ominous name of "self-rescuer" that would remove harmful gases in case of emergency. "About two years ago, [U.S. Sen. Tom] Daschle tacked on a provision to a bill that would turn Homestake Gold Mine over to the U.S. government for a science lab the National Science Foundation could use," Meltzer said. The neutrino lab Meltzer's fictional congressional heroes find deep in the mine is the same neutrino lab that really exists at Homestake; between 1967 and 1985, chemist Raymond Davis conducted neutrino research here for which he won the 2002 Nobel Prize for physics.
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Author Mines for Political Thrillers
Brad Meltzer looked down at the black suit he was wearing. "Ruined" was the first word that popped into the mind of the best-selling author. What else could heexpect after crawling around the dirty bowels of the U. S. Capitol...
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