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Wetlaufer said she was taken aback by the size of the campaign...
Even Einstein would probably be taken aback, though, by experiments announced in Cambridge, Mass., last week: two teams of scientists have slowed light to a dead stop. The achievements, to be reported in this week's issue of Nature and next week's Physical Review Letters, could one day lead to a new generation of compact, superfast computers that operate by light, not electricity...
...this is striking, that I have called Harvard my home. In the quiet reflections of this past semester, I have often been taken aback by this thought. After four years, I had forgotten the awe of that notion, one which affected me so deeply when I first arrived, that I could call this place my home. Certainly, Harvard is much more than an educational institution. It holds a significance for the entire world which is singular and awesome. And yet, for a few years, we all call...
...were taken aback at how much interest there was," Rubalcava said...
...first expedition on the space station requests permission to take the radio call sign Alpha," he said. Both he and Krikalev had expressed favor for the name before launch, since the first letter of the Greek alphabet was neither Russian nor American. Goldin was taken aback, and somewhere off microphone huddled with others before coming back...