Word: lasered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Psychosurgery involves the destruction of a small section of brain--known as the amygdala--which supposedly controls aggressive behavior. A number of methods can be used to destroy the tissue, including ultrasound or laser beams. Only a very small section of tissue, about 1/600 of an inch, is damaged in the process...
Large "phasers" (a takeoff on laser) protect the ship from outside attack, and each crew member carries a smaller phaser for self-defense purposes. Other features of the ship include a space transporter that disassembles the atoms of a person on board ship and reassembles them at the desired location in a process called "beaming...
...Rudolf Bing, 71, the former general manager of the Metropolitan Opera whose laser-beam wit has terrorized and delighted the music world, seems to have decided that he can take the knocks onstage as well as give them off. After signing up to play three performances for the Met's youthful rival, the New York City Opera, Bing explained how he was chosen for a nonsinging, nonspeaking role in a new production of Hans Werner Henze's The Young Lord: "Julius Rudel [the director] called me and said, 'In the opera, there is an old lord...
...Elsewhere young men and women read their latest poetry and a symphony orchestra rehearses a new work, Metamorphoses. The title is appropriate, for the setting is not some artsy experimental college but the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where students traditionally have been more at home with scientific pursuits like laser technology, cancer research and hydroacoustics...
...Lunokhod 1, which it closely resembles, the remarkable machine is apparently equipped with sophisticated gear to analyze the soil that it picks up. In addition, the robot carries a cosmic-ray counter, a "telescope" that can look for distant X-ray sources in the heavens and a French-built laser reflector, which -like similar reflectors left behind by Apollo-should enable scientists to measure the distance between earth and moon with extreme accuracy...