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...Another facet of the bionic future is taking shape in a second-floor laboratory at the University of Louvain in Brussels. There Marie, a 63-year-old Belgian woman, is treated to visions of red, blue and yellow dots arranged in neat little rows like the tops of Lego building blocks. Glimpses of Lego bricks are hardly worth getting excited about, but Marie is enthralled - because she's blind...
...This canvassing program is just one facet of that,” he said...
...Gates of Janus. Nor will they find many insights in his lengthy double-speak. Perhaps the real surprise about this book, first published late last year, is that it has sold enough copies to warrant a reprint. Brady holds that the "serial killer is ... your alter ego, that facet of character you strive so hard to conceal and repress." He may believe it; but readers of this ugly, unpersuasive book certainly...
...Roger Williams] just outplayed us in every facet of the game,” said Harvard Coach Tom Wilson. “We just played poorly against a good team...
...exhibit, thematically organized under five headings—the Scientists, the Professionals, the Families, the Collectors and the Daguerreotypists themselves—encompasses every facet of the 20 years, 1850 to 1870, when daguerreotypy was popularly practiced. The world’s “first” daguerreotypes, Sandworth and Hawes 1846-47 “Operations Under Ether,” underscore daguerreotypy’s scientific foundation, used here to capture the first instance of anesthesia-assisted surgery. Stoic and stern of countenance and apparel, the surgeons contrast in sharp relief with the patient, who, exists...