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Unlike most Harvard divinity School students, the Rev. Randy Davis was never able to attend services in Andover Chapel...
Davis, a 1989 graduate, is handicapped, and for most of the 80-odd years of the Andover Chapel's history, the building has been inaccessible to people with physical disabilities...
...this is the chapel...It's nice to be here," Davis told an audience of faculty and students last night in a jammed Andover Chapel. The rededication ceremony was the first public worship service held on the building's second floor since the changes were made...
Critics scoffed when computers were first enlisted to help restore Michelangelo's magnificent frescoes in the Sistine Chapel. What could an electronic filing system in some Vatican basement contribute to the painstaking, labor-intensive task of liberating one of the world's largest and most famous paintings from nearly 500 years of accumulated grime and murky glue? But the computer -- an Apollo workstation programmed to map every curve and crack down to the last millimeter -- proved so indispensable that it was installed 20 meters (65 ft.) above the ground, on the main scaffold, where it put a wealth of data...
...Sistine Chapel project was a breakthrough that made believers of the skeptics. Even the Vatican's chief restorer, Gianluigi Colalucci, concedes that future computers will recall in an instant visual information that used to require years of research, including, he adds with a laugh, "the errors we are making now." But more important, the restoration marked the beginning of the Italian art establishment's love affair with technology. Nowadays, computers linked up to gamma-ray detectors, infrared cameras and thermographic sensors are turning up in art-restoration projects all across Italy, from the vast ruins of Pompeii to the crowded...