Word: deafness
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Although their message did not immediately spark a raging debate, it also did not fall on deaf ears. It will hopefully not only encourage other masters who have been thinking of broaching such important topics with their students, but also act as a wake up call for those masters who have been disengaged from the intellectual debates in their Houses...
This past Sunday, in an outcry of opposition, a handful of peace protesters from Harvard (including Adams House Masters Judith and Sean Palfrey) joined an estimated 100,000 people in Washington, D.C. to rally at the White House for more patience. Unfortunately, their cries appear to be falling on deaf ears...
...such attentive use in the recent revival of "The Real Thing") loves the play of ideas, loves the possibility for constructive social change, loves his wife and children more. The discovery of an infidelity wounds him like the news of a Tsarist outrage; the shipwreck of his deaf child collapses upon him like the failed revolutions...
...island in the Caribbean, it is noon at the National Theatre; the characters and the play are young, full of hope and vinegar. As my editor reads this column just after noon, the 1848 Revolution is giving Marx and his followers some brazen ideas, and a dear, deaf, dead child is wandering through the inaudible murmur of adult conversation. And if you, reader, happen to be scanning these words at sunset on Saturday, know that the cast is taking one last bow, and the audience - many, I'll warrant, who have seen the trilogy before and have returned...
When high school student Ryan Patterson, 18, saw a deaf woman trying to order food at a Burger King, he had a eureka moment: Why not create a device that translates sign language into text? Armed with that idea and a leather golf glove, Patterson created a device that senses its wearer's hand movements and transmits them wirelessly to a tiny handheld monitor, where they appear as words. The device won Patterson a top prize at the Siemens Westinghouse Science and Technology Competition. INVENTOR Ryan Patterson AVAILABILITY Prototype TO LEARN MORE www.siemens-foundation.org...