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...otherwise bleak night for supporters of Hughes, the little town of Boxbury, Mass., provided a gleam of light. Results in Boxbury: Lodge, 14; Kennedy, 71; and Hughes...
...years older. Through the Looking Glass fades on "the shadow of a sigh" as Alice bounds happily into her future and the old White Knight bumbles on his way. Lewis Carroll's consolation was to create a Wonderland that lingers forever in "the golden gleam" of that summer's day a century...
What dazzles the refugees is the abundance of food. Every crowded Hong Kong street is redolent of salt dried fish and the sharp smell of pickles. Vendors offer oranges, bananas and cakes; the stalls of Market Row gleam with eggplant, squash and tomatoes. Workers throng the pork shops to buy succulent halves of crisp, glazed pig. Store fronts are filled with families clustered around rice bowls and side dishes of meat and fish...
Ever since lasers-a word and an instrument stemming from Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation-were first perfected, their fierce, pure gleam has been one of the most revolutionary tools of advancing science. By stimulating the atoms of a synthetic ruby with brief bursts from a powerful strobe lamp, scientists demonstrated that they could produce spurts of "coherent" light -pure red light that is all of the same wavelength, all polarized in the same direction, and all traveling in phase in almost perfectly parallel beams. Such light can be focused so sharply that its energy is concentrated...
Every morning at Cambridge University, 3,401 budding scientists peer into electron microscopes or ponder the dynamics of rocket propulsion in air-conditioned labs that gleam with ultramodern glass and aluminum. Then, with medieval black gowns flapping, they ride off on rusty bicycles to another world: lunch with 3,751 arts undergraduates (never "students") fresh from reading Sophocles and Shakespeare in a library built by Christopher Wren. Soon scientists and classicists are sunk in shabby armchairs before gasping gas heaters, sipping sherry with their tutors. All around them is a happy blend of past and future: the green-lawned beauty...