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...when Alan Chow, founder of Optobionics, began developing the artificial retina that could help some blind people regain sight, bionic technology was mostly considered fantasy. "When we started, what we proposed was such a radically different approach to incurable eye disease that the idea was considered science fiction," says Chow, 50. But with 10 trial operations since 2000, Chow and Optobionics are inching closer to the regulatory nod that would usher their bionic device into the mainstream medical world...
Leslie S. Jamison ’04, the fiction editor of the Harvard Advocate—which has published several of Ziegler’s stories since her freshman year—says Ziegler’s prose is loaded with repeated phrases and images that “take on this mantra-like way.” Jamison says Ziegler’s work is populated by “people who start as one or two sensationalized details but become fully-realized characters,” including a pair of identical twin brothers and a one-armed fireworks...
...makes you totally ignorant about everything else,” the fiction writer says of her native state. Sitting in the Barker Center cafe before an afternoon class, Ziegler holds a notebook filled with scribblings in many inks. She thinks about her writing constantly—with a goal of producing three pages of fiction a day, she has to. And inspiration can strike unexpectedly...
Ziegler is hardly the first author whose fiction takes place in a distinctive homeland. But she readily admits that Montana—once booming with a strip-mine economy, now characterized mainly by casinos, bars and interminable cold—is not an immediately attractive scene...
Nkosi’s ability to tell a story serves her well as a filmmaker. For her non-fiction video course, she is editing a video titled Crossing Night. For the past two summers, she has worked at Artists Proof, a community art studio in Johannesburg that specializes in printmaking. Nhlanhla Xaba, one of the studio’s founders, died in a fire while he was “crossing night,” or working all night in the studio. Nkosi’s film documents the creation of a project called “Reconciliation...