http://www.bigoven.com/images/blog/tgiv/tradmenu.jpg
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=== Sat 17th ===
http://www.radisson.com/rad/images/hotels/MABOSTON/loc3_450.jpg
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=== Mon 12th to Tue 13th ===
==== Back to NYC ====
AmericanMuseumOfNaturalHistory. Pretty impressive!
http://www.iesny.org/images/OCEANLIFE.jpg
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http://www.rdominis.net/newyork/dinasaur01.jpg
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=== Fri 9th to Sun 11th ===
==== An old friend ====
http://www-bd.fnal.gov/wao/fermipics/94-0470-09.jpg
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On Saturday, I took a bike and rode on the bike path to the main
laboratory buildings. I took a guided site tour, starting from the
museum. They have lots of real-scale models of the accelerator parts
and Mazinger's atomic base.
http://www-bd.fnal.gov/wao/fermipics/99-0005-04.jpg
-ma cos'è tutta questa neve:è una cartolina? E tutti questi uccelli?
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+ Q: ma cos'è tutta questa neve:è una cartolina? E tutti questi uccelli?
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Then... WAH! They guided us **inside** the [[http://linac.fnal.gov/ | Linac]]!
The Linac is the LINear ACcelerator facility, the first stage of acceleration
that produces protons for the MainInjector. It was like entering an old
http://www-bd.fnal.gov/wao/fermipics/93-0073.jpg
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Finally, we visited the MainControlRoom, from which they run the whole thing.
The room looks like the bridge of an old starship, surrounded by monitors,
with a bigger chair in the middle for the captain.
http://allthingsgo.files.wordpress.com/2006/12/images-chicago-2005-chicago-by-night-2-700x700.jpg
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We walked around a little, then went up the
[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hancock_Center | John Hancock Center]],
the third tallest skyscraper, for a breathtaking view of the whole city by night.