Word: method
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...technology that most fascinates visitors is a method for peering below the surface of a finished artwork and analyzing the various layers of paint it contains. The technique, computerized infrared reflectoscopy, is based on the fact that some pigments that reflect light in the visible range (like cadmium red) are more or less transparent to infrared light. By looking through these layers, art historians can catch glimpses of the artist's original handiwork: rough sketches, repaintings and the occasional erasure. Other techniques, notably X-ray analysis, had been used in the past. The major advantage of using a computer with...
...poet's alleged cruelty toward his wife, Hall, the poetry editor of Harvard Magazine, prefers to use the word "cowardly" when referring to Eliot's method of ending their marriage...
...even before it has been fertilized. The technique could enable thousands of mothers with a family history of genetic disorders to avoid giving birth to an afflicted child without having to undergo abortion. Dr. C. Thomas Caskey, president of the American Society of Human Genetics, calls the new method "promising" but stresses that more testing is needed...
Even if the method proves effective, the costs are considerable -- up to $6,000 for the analysis and IVF. Moreover, IVF is a taxing procedure that usually requires repeated cycles of medication to enhance ovulation and delicate manipulations to remove eggs and implant embryos...
...indicates that these stereotypes are no longer caricatures but facts. For the reader, the numbers themselves rendered the caricatures real and the houses obvious. Dean Jewett's omission of house identities is a fleeting salve on the painful reality which his own results have made plain. This method is self-defeating. Craig Katz '91 Steven Kawut...