By the time he was brought back from exile to his home (which his sister said is 'like heaven'), the damage to his core personality was done.

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New rules imposed by the NRC require plant operators to install or improve venting systems to limit core damage in a serious accident and set up sophisticated equipment to monitor water levels in pools of spent nuclear fuel.

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With vegetative patients the brain injury causes sufficient damage to leave them with nothing but core reflexes and no higher cognitive function.

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But it is not impossible that the resultant blurring of basic and applied research, allied to the emergence of the core-and-cloud university, will turn out to revitalise university science rather than damage it.

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