Word: flashlight
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...lowered onto a second-floor landing but I couldn't see much," medal recipient DeFrancesco told The Crimson last October. "So I called for a flashlight and I could make out two figures moving in the smoke. I called to them and picked them up and passed them out to the window...
Science is like a flashlight; what it illuminates depends on where it is pointed. Traditionally, U.S. scientists have been free to decide for themselves where to focus their research. From time to time, politicians and interest groups would lobby for specific agendas -- space exploration, say, or AIDS or breast cancer. But by and large, science in America has been run by the scientists...
...could be the most significant redirection of U.S. science policy since World War II, the Clinton Administration this month is launching an ambitious Cabinet-level effort to set national priorities and push the country's vast federal research program toward those goals. In effect, the government has grabbed the flashlight...
American science at its best derived its greatness from the bottom up; the pluralistic approach freed the best minds of several generations to pursue the questions they found most interesting. The challenge facing the Clinton Administration is to focus the scientific flashlight without leaving whole pathways to knowledge in the dark...
...their guns, I became frightened. I had been through this before, but each time it happens, I cannot help but fear for my life and safety. Almost like a reflex reaction, I put my hands in plain view and instructed my friend to do the same. Soon, a flashlight was blinding us and an officer was at the window asking, "What are y'all boys doing here...