Word: convert
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Just as improvements in navigational tools opened the oceans to sailing ships, so a new generation of precision instruments has exposed a breathtaking microworld to scientific exploration. Aided by computers that convert blizzards of data into images on a screen, these instruments are helping scientists see -- and even tinker with -- everything from living cells to individual atoms. "This technology is still pretty crude," marvels Chu. "Who knows what we may be able to do with it in a few years' time...
FEMTOSECOND LASERS. Like strobes flickering across a submicroscopic dance floor, these devices can freeze the gyrations of atoms and molecules with flashes of light. The lasers are being used to study everything from how sodium joins with other atoms to form salts to how plants convert sunlight into energy through the process of photosynthesis. Physicists from California's Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory reported that they used such a laser to take a "snapshot" of the chemical reaction that is the first step in visual perception. This reaction, triggered when light hits the retina of the eye, had never before been directly...
...Crimson makes note of a frequent criticism of AWARE, that many events represent simply "preaching to the converted." However, I have yet to meet an omniscient "convert" who knows all there is to know and feel about race relations. If I do, I will certainly go to his or her church...
...what is meant by "converted" is that most of the people who attend AWARE events hold some previous interest in how people of certain races or ethnicities relate to and deal with each other, well, I would hope that by this definition almost everybody on campus would call themselves a convert, and would come participate in the forums AWARE works to provide. But everybody doesn't; The Crimson very enthusiastically points out that some AWARE events are not very well attended...
...number of opportunities that he did not convert, plus, he shot terrible from the free throw line," Blaney said. Despite four consecutive successful foul shots at the end of the game, Martzloff ended a woeful 6-for-11 from the charity stripe...