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These figures were affected by repairs to the power supply for the quadrupole defocusing magnets in the booster ring and to the water pump for the storage ring's rf system early in the week of February 17th. This change brings new functionality to the ALS, meeting the special timing needs of users on Beamlines 9.0.2 and 10.3.2 without affecting other users. The finding that a substantial amount of un-ionized hydrogen survived was a bit of a surprise, since the x rays had enough energy to remove up to seven electrons from the chlorine atoms. The researchers likened it to smashing a watch with a sledgehammer only to discover that the glass cover remained whole. The actual experiment, of course, involved no sledgehammers.