Word: lasered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...LASER SHOW has been turned off. The balloons have been deflated. Walter Cronkite is back changing sail in his boat, all the congressmen are back answering rollcalls in the Capitol...
Hagelstein, now 32, went on dreaming about devising an X-ray laser to be used in peaceful applications. Last week that dream prevailed. Livermore announced that Hagelstein was returning to M.I.T. as an associate professor. The young whiz offered no comment. But as Livermore Physicist George Chapline put it, Hagelstein's departure represents a "very significant loss...
Such discoveries have swelled Harvard's string of Nobel prizes to 29, of which 25 have been won by the scientific and medical departments, whose scholarly explorations Harvard contemplates with special pride. Among the others: significant discoveries in the fields of chemical bonding, laser spectroscopy and quantum electrodynamics. President Paul Gray of M.I.T., Harvard's great scientific rival and neighbor on the Charles, twits Harvard for its emphasis on esoteric research. "M.I.T.," Gray says, "is more at ease with the real world." To which Paul Martin, dean of Harvard's Division of Applied Sciences, replies with a seigneurish thrust...
...This is one of the most inept laser shows I'veever seen. Maybe practicing once would have been agood idea. If there's any way to stop the paycheck to the people doing these lasers, theyshould do it," said Doug Duda, a film producer whograduated from the Harvard Business School lastyear...
However Sara Germain, who helped organize theevents, said: "The only problem with the laser wasin people's minds...