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...intended to give the concertgoers a chance at intermission to get a glimpse of some of the amazing books Harvard has in its libraries, from a first edition of Mao’s Little Red Book to Goethe’s thesis. Tickets $20 regular, $10 students. 8 p.m. Edison and Newman Room, Houghton Library...
Genius is 1% inspiration and 99 % perspiration, or so said Thomas Edison. At Harvard, it’s easy to find the perspiration; minds and bodies are hard at work everywhere from the Carpenter Center to the physics lab. But what about the other part? Where do Harvard’s innovators find that special spark...
...from observing four-twenty, it gets a whole lot lamer when it’s dark out. The Boston sun will bid us a dismally premature farewell—setting prior to 4:20 p.m.—from this week through late December, leaving us indebted to Thomas Edison for practically everything we do. The perpetual darkness of early winter may be a drag, but probably more irritating and monotonous is the industrial scale on which we complain about its inconvenience. Restoring year-round Daylight Saving Time could silence that unpalatable grumbling. But the real reason to take this...
...movie Coma. They are capable of smiling, crying and turning toward a voice. "There are many, many behaviors that look like conscious behavior that are reflexive or automatic," says Joseph Giacino, associate director of neuropsychology at the JFK Medical Center and the New Jersey Neuro-science Institute in Edison, N.J. After looking at the videos of Terri Schiavo for TIME, Giacino said, "This is not compelling evidence. It's interesting and suggestive. But most of these responses could occur in a vegetative state...
...Energy, the diversified energy company based in Detroit that is the parent of Detroit Edison Co.--which provides electricity to 2.1 million customers in southeast Michigan who lost their power on Aug. 14--has profited richly, generating $425 million in credits in the past three years from nine synfuel plants in eight states. Yet the cash flow did not seem to help DTE prepare for crunch time in its main business. It lagged behind utilities in New York and Ohio and took three days to restore power to all its customers after the blackout. And it plans to charge consumers...