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...large part to the work of Nicolas Gisin, 52, and his 20 or so graduate students and research assistants at the University of Geneva's Group of Applied Physics. In the basement of the university's old medical-school building, Gisin commands a series of laboratories crisscrossed with laser beams and crowded with the gizmos that make teleportation possible: photon counters, interferometers and plain old mirrors that bounce the lasers around. Last year Gisin was able to teleport a photon over four miles...
...With laser-guided precision, she dropped winner after winner, frustrating opponent Lauren Varrell at every turn of the No. 3 singles match...
...explains that extraterrestrials are most likely contacting humans by aiming laser beams at receivers on earth. These beams, Horowitz believes, will illuminate their planet or star of origin to a level 5,000 times brighter than...
...When a laser pulse is aimed from a certain star, the star illuminates for a moment so that we can see it,” he explains. “We only do receiving...
Only a doctor can administer procedures such as laser resurfacing to tighten skin, Botox and collagen injections, and write prescriptions for oral hormone-replacement drugs to soften lines and wrinkles. And only a doctor can bill like one. Prices vary from $600 for a Botox injection to $1,200 for two laser skin-tightener treatments. "An aesthetician can only generate $100 to $200 per hour," Denese says. "A doctor in a medi-spa practice can generate $2,000 for four Botox injections in one hour. That's what makes a medi-spa profitable...