Word: lasered
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...division, freshman Clay Johnson won two of 10 races sailing a Laser...
Trailing 1-0, the Crimson woke up and responded quickly. Seven minutes after the Stags’ tally, Harvard evened the score at 1-1 when freshman forward Charles Alcheck broke through the defense and struck a laser past the dive of Fairfield goalie Andrew Frankel. The Crimson tacked on its second goal with less then 30 minutes remaining in regulation when Ara headed in a low shot crossed by sophomore forward Anthony Tornaritis...
...Laser Long before the laser was invented, Albert Einstein reckoned that excited molecules hit by photons would produce an amplified signal. In 1960 Theodore Maiman built the first working laser (short for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation), a coherent beam of electromagnetic energy produced by light waves traveling the same path. Today the devices are ubiquitous: guiding rockets for the military, cutting steel, unclogging arteries in the O.R.--and playing your favorite Radiohead...
...code scanners, ray guns, laser light shows, laser printers, Lasik eye surgery, holograms, effective tattoo removal...
...future of the 1990s: the cars would be compact and efficient and would drive themselves; music would involve not just sound but holographic light displays as well. (In retrospect, this was a pungently 1970s view of the future: we would all ride our hyperintelligent Pintos to Laser Floyd shows...