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...just not the right time,” she said. Tau was undeterred. According to Hsu’s mother, her daughter’s affections were won freshman year on a tough night filled with academic deadlines and feelings of homesickness. Tau purposefully left his laser pointer in Hsu’s room in Grays Middle and called a few minutes later, directing her to shoot him with it across the yard. “He briefly described some game rules and started running around the Yard, jumping and dodging the ‘laser...
...story starts in 1998, when Harvard physics professor Eric Mazur and a team of students took a silicon wafer and bombarded it with laser pulses...
...arithmetic. Science is no longer taught as a stand-alone subject. "We had to find ways to embed it within the content of reading, writing and math," says principal Rafael Sanchez, with some regret. Social studies is handled the same way. The payoff for this laser-like attention to reading and math: the school went from failing in 2004 to making AYP and earning a high-flying "performing plus" designation by the Arizona department of education last year...
...latched onto an issue that affects more Americans more directly than gun violence or Islamic terrorism. The folks in Flint needn't worry overmuch that al-Qaeda will bomb the Longway Planetarium (whose Classic Vinyl laser show begins today), but they can count on getting ill and needing to pay the bills. It's something most Americans worry about; Moore says they shouldn't have to. As he said to AP: "We are the richest country in the world. We spend more on health care than any other country. Yet we have the worst health care in the Western world...
...they can readCDs, remove tattoos and repair detached retinas. But in 1960, when physicist Theodore Maiman unveiled the first working laser at a New York City news conference, only a few grasped the device's potential. The trick to creating the tiny, potent pink force that won him world fame: selecting as his medium synthetic rubies, which had been dismissed by many scientists, and using pulsing, rather than continuous, light...