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...Columbus Ave. 4. Friday, September 29, 2006 5-7 p.m. Saturday 30th, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Free. Things aren’t really fun unless they’re breakable. Check out the “Great Glass Pumpkin Patch,” created by the Glass Lab at MIT, where students and artists have handblown glass into a thousand multi-colored pumpkins. You can check out the installation on Friday night, and pick your own on Saturday, when the veggies will be on sale for $20-$200. Take the Red Line to Kendall Square. 5. Thursday, September...
...since they were teenagers, were looking for a way to cook that would, in the words of Andrés, "respect the vegetable." In 2003, their pursuit led them to the Polytechnic's Department of Food Engineering, where they knocked on several doors before finally being directed to the lab where Xavier Martínez, Purificación García and Neus Sanjuan had been working for years on vacuum cooking. At first, there was a bit of culture shock as chefs and scientists tried to adapt to each others' way of thinking. "We spent the first month just...
...thing that I found really satisfies my desire to be a doctor," he says. "I am involved in my patients' lives and get to know them as people." His black bag includes a Palm computer that has wi-fi for e-mail, a special database for patient histories and lab results, and a customized word-processing program. He also carries a battery-powered electrocardiogram (ECG) machine and portable lab kits to do finger sticks that test blood-glucose levels. The doctors often work with lab services that send out technicians to draw blood and with medical companies that provide portable...
...research, which was also published in last week's Archives of Internal Medicine, was part of the large Wisconsin Sleep Cohort Study, which has tracked the sleep patterns of more than 1,400 men and women since 1988. The subjects are brought into a lab every four years for a full evaluation of their sleep habits. Having undergone one of those overnight polysomnographies, I can tell you that they are no fun. Researchers attach little electrical leads all over your body-including your eyelids-to measure brain activity, eye and muscle movement, leg movement, airflow, chest and abdominal movement, heart...
...gatekeeper, an odd little man known as Mr. Nick. Sporting silver loops in both ears and wrapping his salt-and-pepper braids into a bun behind his head, 56-year-old James Melvin Nicholas stood out in the crew-cut, uniformed staff. The breast of his white lab coat was smothered in goodwill medals given to him by VIP guests. His accent was effeminate and Mississippian. He held the lowly title of medical support technician. But from behind the nurse's station, where he worked, everyone knew who was in charge...