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...Arriving hungry at a punch outing Saturday morning, Amir J. Daharpuni ‘04 unknowingly consumed three very pot-laced cookies, washing them down with hefty gulps of the Beam. Later Amir was notified that the cookies were special recipe. “I don’t feel baked,” he muttered over and over to a pile of rocks...
Usually, any information contained in a light beam is destroyed when its photons are absorbed by atoms. In Hau’s research, the information is preserved, and can be converted back into a light beam through the use of lasers...
...hosts. The mood lightened as more Taliban members arrived, hugging and slapping their comrades and welcoming us as guests. We communicated by pointing, drawing and acting. "America no good," one man muttered. Another would ask every few minutes, "are you happy?" "Yes," I would nod. The man would beam back, "I am very happy." As night fell, I found myself holding a commander's two-way radio and talking to other leaders in the area, which elicited howls of delight from my hosts. A rug was placed on the floor and we ate dinner with some commanders. The Taliban...
...seemed at one point to know how many of the high notes he was hitting, staring off to his left with a unsmirky beam, and if you were rooting for the leader of the free world to do well on this night it was impossible not to smile unsmirkily with him. He did what he was supposed to do - take the responsibility, grab the job with both hands, seize the evening on an evening when America wanted to be seized...
...worse, adds to darkening consumer sentiment. It's an imprecise balance. In speeches he talks more about how he will "work hard" to get things done in Washington--a reaction to lingering criticism of his 28-day vacation. And aides say he is going to "focus like a laser beam" on the economy, a line lifted directly from Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign. But at the same time they insist that Bush is not consumed by the fiscal tremors. "We're in an instant-aid society, where every week you have to do something new," says spokesman Ari Fleischer...