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BOSTON, Mass.—Junior Shelley Maasdorp’s laser-beam one timer off a penalty corner capped nearly eight minutes of spirited, dominant play by the No. 12 Harvard field hockey team to start its game against No. 16 Northeastern at Sweeney Field...
...Laser Long before the laser was invented, Albert Einstein reckoned that excited molecules hit by photons would produce an amplified signal. In 1960 Theodore Maiman built the first working laser (short for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation), a coherent beam of electromagnetic energy produced by light waves traveling the same path. Today the devices are ubiquitous: guiding rockets for the military, cutting steel, unclogging arteries in the O.R.--and playing your favorite Radiohead...
...first time ever, the U.S. women's team won the gold medal at the World Gymnastics Championships, the top international competition behind the Olympics. What's more, it won despite losing three of six members to illness or injury. That's HOLLIE VISE, left, nailing her balance-beam routine; alternate CHELLSIE MEMMEL, right, came off the bench to post the day's highest overall score. Even more surprising, American Paul Hamm, 20, won the men's all-around gold, also a historic first. All of which bodes well for next year's Olympics. We couldn't do worse than last...
...million Number of gallons of Jim Beam bourbon that burned when a Kentucky warehouse was struck by lightning...
...diktat against abstraction. Arbeitspause (Break from Work), from 1959, an early painting by the controversial Willi Sitte, typifies the work of a group of artists that emerged in Halle and Berlin and used elements of Cubism and Expressionism. Sitte's construction worker sits cross-legged on a steel beam reading a book with a meditative expression. "Here you can see how he was intensely working through Picasso," says März, pointing to the typical Cubist angular forms and distortions. A few years later, Sitte denounced this style and swore allegiance to the party line. He enjoyed a successful career...